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of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey.

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.

Inconvertibility.

Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.

Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

able of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to p…

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

ially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.

animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose,…

of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.

e poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

In a convertible manner.

of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.