Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being increased.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being increased.

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  • adjective Pertaining to something that can be increased.

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Examples

  • While most items called natural resources cannot be increased easily, the resource called human capital is relatively replenishable and increasable.

    Demographics of the Oligarchs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But we also have a lot of car traffic (increasable in the last years), the sky becomes gray from polution in the cold days and that beautiful buses you see in the film are commonly crowded.

    Film Review- A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil 2008

  • Of course the subject of increase, when changed qua increasable, attains not health but a superior size.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • Nor can these five conceptions and points of view be looked upon as increasable to ten or twenty, or to as many as desired, or that I have placed them in a certain order, but that they could be capriciously placed in another order.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • A certain quantity of art-intellect is born annually in every nation, greater or less according to the nature and cultivation of the nation, or race of men; but a perfectly fixed quantity annually, not increasable by one grain.

    A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859

  • Jobs negotiated a $750 fee - increasable by a bonus of $100 for every expensive chip that could be eliminated.

    Homepage CP Container 2011

  • SunTrust continues to operate from a position of strength, and we are focused on growing revenue, improving expense efficiency, increasable the profitability of the balance sheet, investing for the future, and prudently managing credit.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • It will not poison anything that lives in the air until it reaches increasable levels.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • They travel the vast emptiness of space at increasable speeds.

    Bookspotcentral 2008

  • They travel the vast emptiness of space at increasable speeds.

    Bookspotcentral 2008

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