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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being inscribed.

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

  • adjective Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

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  • adjective geometry That can be inscribed; whose vertices all lie on a sphere.

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Examples

  • PARRY WINDER, FIRST OFFICER, DELTA AIRLINES: The intensity of the light is nearly inscribable, other than the fact I would liken it to looking at an arc welder without a safety mask.

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  • It was only when one went abroad into the other nations that inscribable human interest could be found.

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Since the type of pentagram was not speci fi ed, we can assume the pentagram to be regular, or that it is one, which is inscribable in a circle (i.e., all of its vertices lie on the circle).

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  • All weapons are max damage unless noted and all weapons are inscribable unless noted.

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