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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being alterable; susceptibility to change.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

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  • noun The property of being alterable.

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  • noun the quality of being alterable

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Examples

  • And Jesus confers His confidence in the alterability of the world of human relations.

    Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915

  • He obviously perceives the bearing of his arguments against the alterability of the course of outward nature by prayer, on the question of miracles in general; for he is careful to say that "the possibility of miracles, of a rare and unusual transcendence of the world order is not here in question" (p. 38).

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Still, the difference between the great and less man is, on the whole, chiefly in this point of _alterability_.

    Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

  • And flash memory is not suited to all applications, having its own problems with random access time, bit alterability, and write cycling.

    unknown title 2009

  • Operating systems and their underlying file systems make assumptions about mass storage's long-latency random accesses and full bit alterability.

    unknown title 2009

  • Phase change memory produces very fast read and write speeds at lower power than conventional NOR and NAND flash memory, and allows for bit alterability normally seen in RAM.

    PureOverclock.com 2009

  • Whatever one might think about the alterability of sexual orientation, there is strong evidence that many (perhaps about half) non-purely-heterosexual men and most non-purely-heterosexual women are actually bisexual, and may thus be not unlikely to respond to social norms in their choices of partners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

  • And flash memory is not suited to all applications, having its own problems with random access time, bit alterability, and write cycling.

    unknown title 2009

  • Whatever one might think about the alterability of sexual orientation, there is strong evidence that many (perhaps about half) non-purely-heterosexual men and most non-purely-heterosexual women are actually bisexual, and may thus be not unlikely to respond to social norms in their choices of partners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

  • Operating systems and their underlying file systems make assumptions about mass storage's long-latency random accesses and full bit alterability.

    unknown title 2009

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