expressible

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  1. Capable of being squeezed out by pressure.
  2. Capable of being uttered, declared, shown, or represented. This is a diphthong composed of our first and third vowels, and expressible, therefore, by them, as in the word Vaidya. Sir W. Jones, Orthog. of Asiatic Words.

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  • All wildcard unions are now expressible, and wildcard union is used to combine multiple attribute wildcards, rather than wildcard intersection; this change resolves issue —  Planet XML
  • Although in artistical qualities lower than is easily by language expressible, the Italian marine painting usually conveys an idea of three facts about the sea,--that it is green, that it is deep, and that the sun shines on it. —  The Harbours of England
  • They are then brought into a state of peace even to their inmost, when they confess that nothing of it is in the least expressible or conceivable. —  Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
  • The case stands thus: you enter into an agreement with a being whose aggregate of perfections is expressible, we will say, by 20. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
  • The interdependence of our day has become quantitative--expressible by numbers--leading, it must be added, directly into that inexorable reign of law which so many gentle people regard with dread. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2
 

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