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Definition of Convertibility
1. Noun. The quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction).
Attributes: Convertible, Exchangeable, Inconvertible, Unconvertible, Unexchangeable
Derivative terms: Convertible
Antonyms: Inconvertibility
Definition of Convertibility
1. n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.
Definition of Convertibility
1. Noun. The quality of being convertible ¹
2. Noun. The quality of a currency of being exchangeable for gold or other currencies ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Convertibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Convertibility
Literary usage of Convertibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Currency and Banking by Condy Raguet (1840)
"ON THE STRICT convertibility OF BANK NOTES AND CREDITS. BUT it may be asked, how
are banks to ascertain the precise limits beyond which they cannot extend ..."
2. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"... but cannot make money — The convertibility of bank-notes does not make them
money, and is not so intended ; it is a mere check on the banks — Gold and ..."
3. Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories and a History by Henry Varnum Poor (1877)
"convertibility of paper at all times into coin, consequently, ... Hut convertibility
of issue may have no relation whatever to propriety of issue. ..."
4. Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the by Joshua Girling Fitch (1881)
"In the physical sciences there are the doctrines of the conservation of energy
and also of the convertibility of forces. You know that heat is a mode of ..."
5. The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France, in by John Badlam Howe (1878)
"It is certain that convertibility is essential; but it is equally because ...
The real truth is that convertibility is essential, because the metal into ..."
6. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"The convertibility of Energy. (The second law of the mechanical theory of
heat).—While the law of the conservation of energy furnishes us with the ..."
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