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Definition of Frangibility
1. Noun. Quality of being easily damaged or destroyed.
Generic synonyms: Vulnerability
Derivative terms: Breakable, Fragile, Frangible, Frangible
Definition of Frangibility
1. n. The state or quality of being frangible.
Definition of Frangibility
1. Noun. The state or quality of being frangible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frangibility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frangibility
Literary usage of Frangibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the External, Chemical and Physical Characters of Minerals by Robert Jameson (1817)
"By frangibility is understood the resistance which minerals oppose when we attempt
to break them into ... The degrees of frangibility are the following. 1. ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy: Comprising an Introduction to the Science by William Phillips, Robert Allan, Francis Alger (1844)
"The frangibility of some minerals may in a measure be said to depend upon their
structure; in all, it is probably dependent on some peculiarity in the ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"Dr. A. Richardson (" Philosophical Magazine," September) has devised a new method
of measuring the intensity of rays of high re- frangibility. ..."
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