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generable

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being generated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being begotten or generated; that may be produced by generation, in any sense of the word.
  • Genial; contributory to propagation.

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

  • adjective Capable of being generated or produced.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being generated or created.
  • noun Something that can be generated.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin generābilis, from generāre, to produce; see generate.]

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Examples

  • The generable, similarly, has been generated, for it is capable of having been generated and thus also of not always existing.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • Regarding the substances that are natural and generable, if the causes are really these and of this number and we have to learn the causes, we must inquire thus, if we are to inquire rightly.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • That there are principles and causes which are generable and destructible without ever being in course of being generated or destroyed, is obvious.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • Now all things that change have matter, but different matter; and of eternal things those which are not generable but are movable in space have matter-not matter for generation, however, but for motion from one place to another.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • They come into being and pass away; that is, they are generable and perishable.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • It is from this startling discussion that Blasius concludes that the soul is mortal — produced from matter as other generable and corruptible things.

    DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968

  • He and his vessel were being driven along that tube by every watt of power generable by one entire Eddorian atomic power plant.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • A scant fifteen seconds was all that remained before zero, the moment at which the hellish output of every watt generable by the massed fleet of the Galactic Patrol would be hurled against those screens in their furiously, ragingly destructive might.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • The processes will not end, however, when all the heat generable WITHIN the stars shall have been radiated into an endless space.

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • The system would not run down until all the kinetic energy had been converted into heat, and all the heat generable had been dissipated.

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

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