Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being imaged or imagined.

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

  • adjective rare That may be imaged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being imaged.

Etymologies

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image +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The recall of highly imageable words such as “train” and “hat” was considerably enhanced, but the recall of poorly imageable words such as “truth” and “justice” was greatly enhanced.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • The recall of highly imageable words such as “train” and “hat” was considerably enhanced, but the recall of poorly imageable words such as “truth” and “justice” was greatly enhanced.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • He had notes less pastorally imageable, notes that fired the blood, with the ranging of his theme.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He had notes less pastorally imageable, notes that fired the blood, with the ranging of his theme.

    The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • He had notes less pastorally imageable, notes that fired the blood, with the ranging of his theme.

    The Tragic Comedians — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • The whole of this confusion in thought and expression results from the habit of confounding the sensuous imagination with the non-sensuous reason, and the consequent co-ordination of an imageable conception with an abstract idea.

    Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

  • · Remove Spurious undo manager calls (related to various MapLayout crashes) · Ruler in Map Layout now correctly reflects the zero point on the imageable page

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Any character code not imageable in any CMAP Character Map in the font locations supervised by the system is imaged using Michael Everson's fallback font, that is, the Last Resort Font.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • Any character code not in imageable in the CMAP Character Map of the Monaco font are imaged using a system search for a fallback font whose CMAP Character Map contains that character code (apparently Lucida as the first fallback after Monaco).

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • The issue is not whether to support Arabic and Indic, the issue is whether instructions for imageable appearance belong in the communications model (Universal Character Set / Unicode) or in the composition model (Apple TrueType 2 / AAT and Microsoft TrueType 2 / OT).

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

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