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Alterable

Alterable \Al"ter*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. alt['e]rable.] Capable of being altered.

Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents.
--Rogers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alterable

1520s, from alter + -able. Related: Alterably; alterability.

Wiktionary
alterable

a. Capable of being changed, changeable, mutable n. Something that can be altered; a variable.

WordNet
alterable
  1. adj. capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic; "alterable clothing"; "alterable conditions of employment" [ant: unalterable]

  2. of a sentence; capable of being changed to one less severe

Usage examples of "alterable".

The machine she spoke of would be a brain-scanner of some sort which would record three-dimensionally the microstates of her brain, in particular those of the deeper, less alterable layers.

The novelists Harry favored never suggested that even the worst human behavior was alterable.

The machine she spoke of would be a brain scanner of some sort which would record three-dimensionally the microstates of her brain, in particular those of the deeper, less alterable layers.