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1,144 words match “SIB”

EXPANSIBLE a.
Capable of being expanded or spread out widely. Bodies are not expansible in proposition to their weight. Ex*pab"si*ble*ness ,n. -Ex*pan"si*bly ,adv.
EXPRESSIBLE a.
Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered. -- Express"i*bly,adv.
EXTENSIBILITY n.
The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.
EXTENSIBLE a.
Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.
EXTENSIBLENESS n.
Extensibility.
FEASIBILITY n.
The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.
FEASIBLE a. 2 definitions
done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.
FUSIBILITY n.
The quality of being fusible.
FUSIBLE a.
CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water. Ure. -- Fusible plug (Steam Boiler), a piece of easily fusible alloy,…
GODSIB n.
A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.
GOSSIB n.
A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
HYPERSENSIBILITY n.
See Hyperæsthesia.
IMMENSIBLE a.
Immeasurable. [Obs.] Davies.
IMMERSIBLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being immersed.
IMPASSIBILITY a.
The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.
IMPASSIBLE a.
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.
IMPASSIBLENESS n.
Impassibility.
IMPERMISSIBLE a.
Not permissible.
IMPERSUASIBLE a.
Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable. Dr. H. More. -- Im`per*sua`si*bil"i*ty, n.
IMPERTRANSIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being impertransible. [R.]
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