rangeable

Adjective

1. Arrangeable; classifiable.
   • Here we see them no less rangeable into opposites of direction or locality; by which contrast their several powers may prove best understood. - 1766, James Elphinston, The principles of the English Language digested:
   • Jurine and Desportes, who have written two excellent dissertations on angina pectoris, consider the disease as attributable to functional disorder of the heart and lungs, and as rangeable among the neuroses. - 1823...
   • For as, whatever the perfectness of the educational system, there must remain infinite differences between the natures and capacities of men ; and these differing natures are generally rangeable under the two qualities...
2. Varying within a range.
   • The colour most prevailing in metals passes through all shades of white, of which the pure white of silver may be taken as the starting-point, and the blue white of lead the farthest remove from it; all otheres, with...
   • The real factors, it must be admitted in the long run, of our premature mortality, of our lean physique and peculiar American temperaments, are, after all, our variable and extremely rangeable climate? - 1892, The...
   • This difference in the description of the species, and the lack of agreement as to whether the rangeable Parts are all Non-significant, are worth noting, for they constitute evidence of a genuine Stoic debate, and serve...
3. Able to be ranged or explored.
   • The whole extent of 6.900 miles is, with proper enterprise, rangeable, except across the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and affords a greater number of eligible positions for connected observations than can elsewhere he...
   • Like the great Russian arc, its stretch of over 4,200 miles is rangeable and within a simple chain of feasible triangles. - 1884, What Shall be the Prime Meridian for the World?, page 16:
   • Runnable fields, swimmable water, a rangeable universe - that is music. - 2013, Joshua S. Walden, Representation in Western Music, →ISBN, page 306:
4. Having an adjustable range.
   • User rangeable from -70° C to + 515°C. - 1988, Journal A.: Revue A. Tijdschrift A. Zeitschrift A - Volume 29, page 191:
   • Our 2-wire temperature transmitters are field rangeable. - 1991, InTech - Volume 38, page 34:
   • . The 53ML5100 Manual Loader is a 2 channel manual loading station with rangeable I/O and scalable displays. - 1993, Control Engineering - Volume 40, Issues 8-13, page 30:
5. Supporting the use of ranges.
   • Obviously, the more searchable fields that are available (as opposed to those which are limitable or rangeable), the more bibliometric studies are possible. - 1982, Database - Volumes 5-6, page 82:
   • The form VALUE- (where VALUE means a rangeable search term) specifies a range of values from and including VALUE, and all higher values. - 1994, Common Command Language for Online Interactive Information Retrieval,...
   • For example, for Fixnum, succ returns the current number plus one. This method is necessary if you want to make your class to work with ranges. To have a “rangeable class,” you must also provide an implementation to the...
6. Providing information about the corresponding range; indicating territory or source.
   • Song learning enables singers to one-up listeners under certain circumstances that favor unrangeable songs. Territorial instability will generate selection that favors singers whose locations are not always rangeable,...
   • The spotted towhee's fast trill degrades predictably with distance, thus providing listeners with a rangeable signal; - 2001, Dissertation Abstracts International: The sciences and engineering:
   • An alternative approach would be to play back songs which could not be ranged (such as unfamiliar, dissimilar song; see Sect. 4.5) and to compare the timing of the resulting interactions with that during playback of...