Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being capable of destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.
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- noun The condition of being
destructible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun vulnerability to destruction
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Examples
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Instead, it's a reverence for the power of nature--its beauty as well as its destructibility.
Amy Chavez: Japan's Sea Whisperers Amy Chavez 2011
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A lot of games claim full destructibility of environments, but Red Faction actually has it – everything can be turned to rubble, even the bridge that's needed to advance to the next part of the level.
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Instead, it's a reverence for the power of nature--its beauty as well as its destructibility.
Amy Chavez: Japan's Sea Whisperers Amy Chavez 2011
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A lot of games claim full destructibility of environments, but Red Faction actually has it – everything can be turned to rubble, even the bridge that's needed to advance to the next part of the level.
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We've gotten good at making environments believable and reactive to the player's input high-res art, physics simulation, fire propagation, destructibility, etc. but people are just that much more complex.
Being There Steve gaynor 2008
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On the one hand, this eserine action provided a means of revealing the minimal quantities of Ac.Ch. being released by nerve stimulation which would otherwise, because of their rapid destructibility, have remained undisclosed.
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The vagus substance behaves identically with Ac.Ch. not only in regard to its reaction to atropine, and to its destructibility with esterase but also concerning all other characteristics.
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It was characterized by its effect upon the heart which was similar to that of adrenaline, through the neutralizing of this effect by ergotaminization and also by its destructibility through fluorescent light.
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The last two findings were confirmed by Chang and Gaddum. 26 As Ac.Ch. is not present in the blood, it cannot diffuse from there, and neither, on account of its ready destructibility, could it diffuse from elsewhere in the nerves and ganglia.
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This reasoning would force the destructibility of Matter upon us: “the body is dissolved; then the Matter is dissolved.”
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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