Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being constructed.

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  • adjective That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
  • adjective That the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.

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Examples

  • Yes, its the Pirates of the Spanish Main constructible strategy game.

    Harrr Me Harties, Why Plunder When You Can Print Your Own Money! Harrrr! 2004

  • Yes, its the Pirates of the Spanish Main constructible strategy game.

    July 2004 2004

  • Objects are not infinitely "constructible", however, and the object therefore must be regarded as an active participant in an interactive process that elicits a specific set of the object's properties as socially relevant.

    Roughtheory.org 2009

  • Another mistake would be to assume that social practices are confronted by a universe of passive objects that are infinitely "constructible" and offer no material constraints upon what social actors may do.

    Roughtheory.org 2009

  • Brown immediately saw the scheme was not constructible, but he worked with Champney to derive a plan that was structurally possible.

    Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

  • Also, at Comic Con this weekend, I saw an interesting Pirate “constructible” collectible card game.

    John Joseph Adams » Pirate Booty 2007

  • This game uses pop-out constructible models and a teeny die to run the game.

    A Visual Genre? joshenglish 2007

  • Also, at Comic Con this weekend, I saw an interesting Pirate “constructible” collectible card game.

    John Joseph Adams » 2007 » February 2007

  • Quine himself justifies some transfinite set theory along these lines (Quine 1984, p. 788), but he sees no reason to go beyond the constructible sets (Quine 1986, p. 400).

    Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008

  • The constructible hierarchy is defined by a similar recursion on the ordinals, where Def (X) is the set of all subsets of

    The Axiom of Choice Bell, John L. 2008

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