Definition of Translatability

1. Noun. The property of being translatable; able to be translated. ¹

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Definition of Translatability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Translatability

transitivise
transitivities
transitivity
transitivize
transitorily
transitoriness
transitory
transits
transitted
transitting
transjugular
transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
transketolase
transketolases
transketolation
translatability (current term)
translatable
translate
translateable
translated
translates
translatese
translating
translating dictionaries
translating dictionary
translating program
translation
translation dictionaries
translation dictionary
translation studies

Literary usage of Translatability

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

1. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... once wrote a letter scouting the idea of the translatability of Don Quixote. ... be no need to discuss the question of Don Quixote's translatability. ..."

2. Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"11 The successful termination of such an undertaking directly relates to the translatability of the original and is a recognition of its basic quality. ..."

3. The Bookman (1917)
"And yet this very un- translatability is the surest proof of authenticity — the best guarantee that the Beaux Arts is still the Beaux Arts. Here is a little ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"... of our more ordinary intuitions, not upon its eventual translatability, but upon its untranslatability into the forms of our common human experience? ..."

5. Classical Weekly (1910)
"Under the first point, Mr. Tetlow classifies words wtih reference to their translatability into two classes, easy and difficult. As example of the first he ..."

6. Issues of Curriculum Reform in Science, Mathematics and Higher Order by Ronald D. Anderson (1994)
"This development of understanding results in a lack of equivalency among terms, a lack of translatability among concepts, and a miscommunication among ..."

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