Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Controllable \Con*trol"la*ble\, a. Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore,
. . . not always controllable by reason.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from control (v.) + -able.
Wiktionary
a. Able to be controlled; subject to regulation or command.
WordNet
adj. capable of being controlled [syn: governable]
Usage examples of "controllable".
Emotion was, causally, a psychophysiological state, and as such ought to be controllable.
The Moon is clearly Space, and Space, someone said, has no weather —an arguable thesis, but meant (in that case) to extoll the virtues of living in a planned, controllable environment.
But the hierarchial system and crude methods of birth control were functional to keep the tribes within controllable limits.
We can greatly improve upon this century-old technique, dispensing with the poisonous mercury, and also obtaining a more uniform coating of controllable thickness.
Daniel doubted the little vehicle would be controllable at much over seventy or eighty mph.
Kud'ar Mub'at had decided there might be other uses for the empty exoskeleton, and had even spun out from itself enough neurofiber and simple muscular tissue to turn its former shell into a controllable likeness of its own physical form.
A large part of their own communication lay in nuances indicated by the play of marvelously controllable quills.
Actually, it's the inverse of what we're already doing with the Extraterrestrial Reserves, exiling the Probies from geographically controllable areas and then allowing E.
Actually, it’s the inverse of what we’re already doing with the Extraterrestrial Reserves, exiling the Probies from geographically controllable areas and then allowing E.
There was more explicit gossip, and even some holos, in the sleazier and less controllable tabs.
They may not go faster than light, but they should still pack a mean wallop and be controllable in space.
The whole point about the world inside a VE hood, backed up by the full panoply of smartsuit-induced tactile sensation, was that it was better than the real world: brighter, cleaner, and more controllable.