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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being squeezed out by pressure.
  • Capable of being uttered, declared, shown, or represented.

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

  • adjective Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.

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  • adjective Able to be expressed.

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  • adjective capable of being expressed

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Examples

  • It was a condition not to be expressed by such terms as a gratified church might have been able to concede -- by some elevation to a higher sphere of influence or other worldly favour; it was a figure baldly commercial, expressible, that is, in pounds, shillings and pence.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • It was a "microblogging" service that allowed one to broadcast one's thoughts to the world, on one condition: that they should be expressible in not more than 140 characters.

    Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool 2011

  • Absolute truth is only expressible via metaphor and stylistic sophistication (profound simplicity).

    C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth) 2009

  • The creative thinker must think in the terms of the logic, the thought patterns, the expressible concepts of his culture.

    David Loy - Rethinking Karma William Harryman 2009

  • Accordingly, where ISJs introverted, sensory, judging types maintain and enjoy their hobbies all their lives, INJs tend to lose interest when the fluid nature of unrealized meaning takes expressible shape and has meaning for others.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Fresca 2009

  • Reality: The deep fallacy is the idea that any concept occurring in the human mind and expressible in language is a real measurable entity.

    Dan Agin: Black and White in America IV: IQ Myths and Realities 2009

  • Accordingly, where ISJs introverted, sensory, judging types maintain and enjoy their hobbies all their lives, INJs tend to lose interest when the fluid nature of unrealized meaning takes expressible shape and has meaning for others.

    Serial Loves Fresca 2009

  • Maybe in your distinctions there's a clue, aside from questions of style, in how spectacle can become an analogue for less expressible inner conflicts, and that when it is not (as in the phantom Star Wars, of which, like you, I remember almost nothing) it becomes, as you say, simply CGI backdrops and therefore has no resonance.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • Moving up is harder in a different way because the lesser language often hides abstractions that are directly expressible in the higher (a complicated nest of for next lops. ifs and assignments may (in the end) decompose cleanly into sequence ops in haskell but it is sometimes difficult to see and/or extract those).

    Archive 2009-05-01 Ravi 2009

  • Moving up is harder in a different way because the lesser language often hides abstractions that are directly expressible in the higher (a complicated nest of for next lops. ifs and assignments may (in the end) decompose cleanly into sequence ops in haskell but it is sometimes difficult to see and/or extract those).

    Some guidelines on porting Ravi 2009

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