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Attachable

Attachable \At*tach"a*ble\, a. Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
attachable

1570s, from attach + -able.

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attachable

a. Able to be attached.

WordNet
attachable

adj. capable of being fastened or added to something else; "a handle attachable by two bolts" [ant: detachable]

Usage examples of "attachable".

Well, we weren't permitted the deadly attachable weapons that such tanks usually wore, but their gift did give us access to our tank's considerable computing power, and to Dream World, something not ordinarily available to people on New Croatia.

But, a Mark XIX Main Battle Tank costs over a million of your marks, even without the attachable weapon systems.

Even without the attachable external weapons, each of my tanks is worth a million marks.

When he arrives home after evening prayers, he wants to look upon a spicy and 100% shari'a-halal dinner piping hot and arranged and steaming pleasantly on its attachable tray, he wants his bib ironed and laid out by the tray at the ready, and he wants the living room's teleputer booted and warmed up and the evening's entertainment cartridges already selected and arranged and lined up in dock ready for remote insertion into the viewer's drive.

Fortier owned attachable legs of flesh-tone polymer resins whose interior circuitry was responsive to large-bundle neural stimuli from his stumps, which with metal crutches whose bracelets locked to his wrists allowed a sort of swirling parody of perambulation.

He suggested we use his car, with the attachable red bubble and siren.

It looked like a pair of metal rulers joined by a pivot, covered all over by numbers and scales, with screws and an attachable arch to hold the compass arms open at almost any angle.

But my pen has run away with men I was thinking of Paolo, and what a pleasant thing it is to have one of those child-like, warm-hearted, attachable, cheerful, contented, humble, faithful, companionable, but never presuming grownup children of the South waiting on one, as if everything he could do for one was a pleasure, and carrying a look of content in his face which makes every one who meets him happier for a glimpse of his features.

By the time she had grown sharper, as the gentlemen who had criticised her calves used to say, she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable--images and echoes kept for her in the childish dusk, the dim closet, the high drawers, like games she wasn't yet big enough to play.

An injury of the sexual organs could still be simulated by an attachable moulage, but then this blocked the cooling vent.