combinable

Able to be combined.

Adjective

  1. Able to be combined.
    • For instance, liquids are the most 'combinable' of all bodies — because, of all divisible materials, the liquid is most readily adaptable in shape, unless it be viscous. - 1922, Aristotle [in translation], De Caelo:
    • Candidate tasks cannot be too difficult or too easy, but they have to be divisible or combinable, so that they can be broken down into smaller chunks that can be solved independently by a potentially large group of...

    Synonyms: mergeable unitable

    Antonyms: divisible separable

Origin

Etymology tree English combine Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English combinable From combine + -able.

Forms

more combinable most combinable

Related

combinability combinableness combinably combine compatible

Derived

incombinable uncombinable