extractableadj.
/ɛkˈstraktəb(ə)l/ That may be extracted:
a. gen. (cf. esp. senses 3, and 4 of the verb).
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > extracted > able to be
extractable1682
extricablea1794
extractionable1797
1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. ii. §2 in Anat. Plants 282 Their tastable parts [are] less easily extractable by the Tongue.
1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 302 The profit extractible out of the expense.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1116 He had extracted the last extractable halfpenny.
1891 Times 13 July 11/3 The quantity of sugar extractable from the root [of beet].
b. Of a passage in a book, etc.: Suitable for extraction; quotable.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > [adjective] > suitable for extraction
extractable1835
1835 Blackwood's Mag. 38 380 We will now seek a humorous extractable passage.
c. Scots Law. Of a judgement, etc.: Ready to be copied out for execution.
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1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §63 The Court..shall..pronounce Judgment..and such Judgment shall be extractible in common Form.
1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §51 The decree for such expenses shall be extractable by the extractor of the Court of Session.
Draft additions 1993
extractaˈbility n. the property of being extractable; the degree to which something is extractable.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [noun] > property of being extractable
extractability1961
1961 in N. Webster
1972 Nature 22 Dec. 451/2 The extractability of pulse-labelled DNA is a function of the distance of that DNA from an extractable replication complex.
1986 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. Oct. 31/2 Initial tests..also indicated that the extractability of silver decreases as the degree of sulphur oxidation increases.
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