Definitions
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- adjective Able to be
shed ordiscarded .
Etymologies
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shed + -able.
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Examples
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We're only eight, only human, woundable flesh and sheddable blood.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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The rube goldberg machine of intercontinental HVDC "spiderwebs", pumped hydro storage, gasified biomass peaker turbines, battery farms, vehicle to grid, sheddable load (e.g. letting the power company switch off your air conditioning in an emergency and pay you for the privilege), smart metering, thermal storage ... it's just never going to be built because not even the people who ought to have an incentive to talk about it bother to mention the true complexity, vulnerability and cost of such a system.
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