Definition of Containable

1. a. Capable of being contained or comprised.

Definition of Containable

1. Adjective. Able to be contained, especially applied to viruses and similar diseases. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Containable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Containable

contagious abortion
contagious agalactia
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
contagious bovine pyelonephritis
contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
contagious disease
contagious distribution
contagious ecthyma
contagious ecthyma virus of sheep
contagious pustular dermatitis
contagious pustular stomatitis virus
contagiously
contagiousness
contagium
contain
containable (current term)
containant
containants
contained
container
container-deposit
container ship
container ships
container vessel
containerboard
containerboards
containerful
containerfuls
containerisation
containerise

Literary usage of Containable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work by Alpheus Spring Packard (1901)
"The containable fluids absorbed by the small gelatinous mass in question remain almost motionless in its different parts, because the non-containable ..."

2. Constructive Text-book of Practical Mathematics by Horace Wilmer Marsh, Annie Griswold Fordyce Marsh (1913)
"(a) ROOT INDEX EVENLY containable. A root index evenly containable in the negative characteristic should be directly divided into the logarithm without ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and under favourable circumstances, in filling the«e *ma!l cellular masses with containable fluids, put in motion by meant of subtle exciting fluids, ..."

4. The Monthly Magazine by Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), Richard Phillips (1813)
"... mucilaginous matter which she finds at her disposal, and under favourable circumstances, in ailing these small cellular masses with containable fluids, ..."

5. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... the x-ray field at the minimum SSD shall be containable in a circle having a diameter of no more than 7 centimeters; and (ii) If the minimum SSD is less ..."

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