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  • adjective Capable of being composed (as from multiple lesser elements).

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compose +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Today's technical revolution is the notion of composable IT and network resources, stuff that can be tuned to the way everyone works.

    No Jitter 2009

  • More important, these atomic structures can be composable which is lost when doing locks in structural programming.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • Whether time or space, continuous is usually more composable than discrete.

    Patterns in Haskell « Alex McLean 2009

  • Whether time or space, continuous is usually more composable than discrete.

    Patterns in Haskell « Alex McLean 2009

  • GLASHEEN: So like, this is like your typical plastic beer cup except of the fact that it's made out of one 100 percent of corn, it's 100 percent composable, about three months after this is thrown away, it's completely gone, it breaks down into the landfill and is no longer existent.

    CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008 2008

  • An inflatable, composable, strawberry red rubber singer will tease you in this video…

    No Fat Clips!!! : EMILIANA TORRINI – Fisherman`s Woman 2007

  • In other words, given a pair of logics (presented in an homogeneous way), are they composable in a meaningful way?

    Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007

  • And let our Widows of Ashur unlung themselves in advocacy of quack remedies for evils for which they themselves are cause; it remains true that when the contention of two lions for one bone is exacerbated by the accession of a lioness the squabble is not composable by stirring up some bears in the cage adjacent.

    The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • And let our Widows of Ashur unlung themselves in advocacy of quack remedies for evils of which themselves are cause; it remains true that when the contention of two lions for one bone is exacerbated by the accession of a lioness the squabble is not composable by stirring up some bears in the cage adjacent.

    A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • The new version includes a real-time stimulus profile tool that greatly expands deterministic test execution with looping and branching structures, composable arithmetic functions, multitasking and more.

    unknown title 2011

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