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manipulable, a.|məˈnɪpjʊləb(ə)l|
[f. late L. manipulāre to manipulate: see -able.]
Capable of being manipulated.
1881Brit. Trade Jrnl. XIX. 335 The substance..has to be rendered manipulable. 1957B. F. Skinner in Saporta & Bastian Psycho-linguistics (1961) 233/1 Suffixes such as -ness or -hood are usually readily manipulable as separate elements in composing new terms. 1963Punch 2 Jan. 21/1 A swiftly manipulable key-board. 1965J. Feinberg in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 154 It would be an oversimplification..to identify ‘the cause’ of an infelicitous condition with any manipulable necessary condition. 1971Nature 12 Feb. 445/3 As well as being easy to learn and formally manipulable, [computer languages]..should be thought-provoking. 1971Human World Nov. 14 Is sovereignty something that can be arranged like this? Is it so infinitely manipulable? |