What is "consumable"

Usage examples of "consumable".

Behind the crew cabin was the drivetrain and the power plant, thermal radiator wings, pressure tanks for consumables, and a small omnidirectional antenna that could transmit either to the orbital relay satellite or back to the habitat module.

The second group of Livers, dressed in old government-issued synthetic clothing and a bizarre assortment of homespun consumables, rushed into sight and opened fire.

Was it possible that man had taken a,n evolutionary leap, had innately discovered a method of crunching himself into ten million bits of information, of packeting himself into microbursts of deliverable data consumable to even the crudest receiving unit, something as crude as, say, the household plumbing-- why not?

Iraq will be unable to purchase the vast amounts of weapons, equipment, spare parts, ammunition, and other combat consumables it desperately needs.

A lot of my own time is taken up with money, an almost obsessive issue for most British-based researchers these days: how to find the funds for the salaries of the post-docs, the grants to the students, the capital costs of new equipment, the consumable budget to buy the isotopes and the reagents.

Because people found such wrappers useful for more than merely preserving consumables between manufacture and use, they were designed to not degrade until they had been buried in a landfill for several days.

We have detected the presence of more than a thousand beings aboard the ship, yet they have with them enough consumables to last for only a few months, at best.

Pralla Portside Consumables Monitor, I offer my apologies to you as well.

We can only put up so much mass, and so we trade consumables for instruments.

They've got a big booster, and they're taking up a lot of consumables they'll share with our team.

Provided we can have immediate action in the matter of topping up stores and medical consumables and there are no oversized e-ts getting underfoot-"

Power, light, communication and translation facilities are available, but you are no longer connected to the main air supply system or to the automatic food distribution network, nor will you receive medical consumables of any kind.

He ran quickly through the parameters of the cluster's operation: consumables usage, attitude control propellant usage, cryogenic store boiloff.

Each freighter was large enough to transport half a cubic kilometer of materiel, consumables, and supplies, along with a thousand crew and passengers.

But, with both the government and the other circuses turning their food-consuming animals into consumable food for human beings, some zealous do-gooders are likely to look on us as harboring, almost literally, dogs in the manger.