Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being altered, varied, or made different.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being altered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being changed,
changeable ,mutable - noun Something that can be altered; a
variable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe
- adjective capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic
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Examples
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It was believed that the brain's circuitry was only alterable in certain "critical periods," or brief windows of extreme plasticity; these were thought to occur in childhood, when experience helped to form the brain's circuitry.
Never Too Late to Learn Norman Doidge 2012
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It has the status of a binding executive order in domestic law — and amendable, alterable, and revocable should the President want to doit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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God can be perceived or experienced in many ways and environments but is not in essence changeable or alterable.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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It has the status of a binding executive order in domestic law — and amendable, alterable, and revocable should the President want to doit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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God can be perceived or experienced in many ways and environments but is not in essence changeable or alterable.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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God can be perceived or experienced in many ways and environments but is not in essence changeable or alterable.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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God can be perceived or experienced in many ways and environments but is not in essence changeable or alterable.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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You may notice that it's an easily alterable plan in case I don't have time to fill in with lots and lots of small trees!
Can't see the forest for the trees katelnorth 2008
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Other matters are considered a product of human law, which is alterable if the church thinks that doing so is in its best interest.
Banned By the Pope 2010
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In this way, American drift farther and farther away from the world they live in and its complexities, content to imagine themselves as self-sufficient individualists amid voluntary social and political arrangements alterable -- and escapable -- at will.
James Block: Play It Again, Barack James Block 2010
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