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Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.

Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words. South.

Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface (Math.), a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.

Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.

Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.

A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.

Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.

Capable of being digested.

conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

Capable of being dug.

Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.

Capable of being diminished or lessened.

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair. A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure…

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay.