Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted, as by contact or intercourse.
- noun In logic, capability of being common to several things. Thus, the characteristics of the sun, though peculiar to that luminary, possess communicability, inasmuch as there might be two suns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
communicable
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Examples
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And they say that the disease, the TB that he has at this stage of the game, is of low communicability, meaning it's difficult to spread.
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For the purpose of this utopian object lies at all times with the "communicability" of our judgment of it.
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This early, heightened communicability of virus with rapid transmission accelerates the propagation of the epidemic.
Bruce A. Barron: Scientific Breakthroughs Bruce A. Barron 2012
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This early, heightened communicability of virus with rapid transmission accelerates the propagation of the epidemic.
Bruce A. Barron: Scientific Breakthroughs Bruce A. Barron 2012
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This early, heightened communicability of virus with rapid transmission accelerates the propagation of the epidemic.
Bruce A. Barron: Scientific Breakthroughs Bruce A. Barron 2012
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This early, heightened communicability of virus with rapid transmission accelerates the propagation of the epidemic.
Bruce A. Barron: Scientific Breakthroughs Bruce A. Barron 2012
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This blend of embodied response and universal import closely resembles Kant's own procedure, for he too insists both on the uniqueness and the communicability of aesthetic judgment.
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The liberal class became seduced by the need for popular appeal, forgetting, as MacDonald wrote, that, quote, as in arts and letters, communicability to a large audience is an inverse ratio to the excellence of a political approach.
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Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier's discovery explained the progression of the disease and its communicability, enabling them to establish the connection between HIV and AIDS.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech 2008
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I find myself stripping everything down to the bare communicability.
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