destructibility


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de·struc·ti·ble

 (dĭ-strŭk′tə-bəl)
adj.
Breakable or easily destroyed: destructible glassware.

de·struc′ti·bil′i·ty, de·struc′ti·ble·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.destructibility - vulnerability to destruction
vulnerability - susceptibility to injury or attack
indestructibility - the strength to resist destruction
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References in classic literature ?
All the processes by which I had been able to arrive at the precious proof of the destructibility of matter were there--all.
"Ans.--From God, who created it of a nature one and indivisible; the destructibility thereof is, consequently, not conceivable, and he hath said--"
"There is typically a destructibility or some type of tamper evidence needed in its function.
Willis similarly misreads Hemingway's 1925 short story collection, In Our Time: "Hemingway actively avoids any admission of environmental fragility, destructibility, or limitability" (127).
destructiveness righteous and its own destructibility unthinkable.
Externalizing problems refer to behaviours such as disobeying rules, impulsiveness, aggression, inattention, hyperactivity and destructibility. These types of behaviour are termed as 'uncontrolled behaviours because the children lack the ability to control the behaviours.
Put down on canvas, they make-up a surreal world that also reflects on the power of nature, the destructibility of humankind and the vulnerability of the condition they find themselves in.
The United States needed the range and speed of ballistic technology with more accuracy and maneuverability but less destructibility. This requirement created the foundation of the Pentagon's support for CPGS during the Bush and Obama administrations and the subsequent turn to hypersonic weapons that offer all of the above-mentioned strategic options.
(31.) See Walsh, supra note 2, [section] 115, at 212-13 (discussing destructibility of joint tenancies).
We might call Berger's and Agamben's anthropomorphism melancholic in the sense that, spying only the destructible within the human, they project human destructibility on the non-human animal.
Given that five filtered alternative tourist spots [x.sub.i] (i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) advance to be reviewed for acceptance, the corresponding investment criteria about exploitation feasibility of tourist spots could be constructed according to [69] from the following five aspects: variety ([g.sub.1]), orientability ([g.sub.2]), monopoly ([g.sub.3]), destructibility ([g.sub.4]), and novelty ([g.sub.5]).