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Controllable   /kəntrˈoʊləbəl/   Listen
Controllable

adjective
1.
Capable of being controlled.  Synonym: governable.






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"Controllable" Quotes from Famous Books



... than those described, we have several modern varieties; submarine projectiles, submarine rockets, automobile and controllable locomotive torpedoes. The first two varieties, though feasible, are not developed and have not yet advanced beyond the experimental stage. Of the automobile, we have the Whitehead, Swartzkopf and Howell. The first two are propelled ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various

... of the same subject, the causes of zymotic diseases being traced to controllable sources, he said: Drs. Klebs and Crudelli allege that malarial fever arises from germs present in the soil and which float over the air of marshes; and that by treating with water the soil of a fever-haunted marsh of the Campagna the germs ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various

... to do? What could any one do? The girl was absolutely uncontrolled: was it likely she would prove controllable? Would she mind him, when she cared no more for his stately mother than for the dairy-woman! How could such a bewitching creature so lack refinement! The more he thought, the more inexplicable and self-contradictory her conduct appeared. Such a ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald

... aeroplane may be reasonably controllable, it is necessary for it to possess some degree of stability longitudinally, ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... and holds it; who often gets the main profits of the inventions of the inventor; who forsees the future value of unused gifts of Nature and acquires them while they can be got cheap; who combines with others like him to control everything controllable and makes mankind pay roundly when it wants it. He is really the man to whom mankind is most indebted of all for without his beneficent if execrated service, in vain would the scientist toil in his laboratory, the inventor struggle through poverty to perfect his machine, the ...
— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams



Words linked to "Controllable" :   governable, manageable



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