Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable: synonym: possible.
- adjective Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.
- adjective Capable of living outside the uterus. Used of a fetus or newborn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of living; likely to live; specifically, capable of continued existence outside of the womb: noting a fetus. Seeviability, 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to live on its own (as for a newborn.)
- adjective Able to be done,
possible . - adjective In (
biology ), able to live and develop.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
- adjective capable of life or normal growth and development
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In what they referred to as a viable inside attack possible on locks geared for office settings, someone could borrow a key and shave tiny bit of metal from the tip and it would no longer catch the iLoq reset hook.
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The Army said it made safe what it described as a viable improvised explosive device found under the private car.
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“When I was talking about knowing if my business is viable or not, through a profit-and-loss model, I was like ‘Wow, I didn’t even know the word viable before, and now I do,’ Whitley says.
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“When I was talking about knowing if my business is viable or not, through a profit-and-loss model, I was like ‘Wow, I didn’t even know the word viable before, and now I do,’ Whitley says.
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At the same time, I could see how this series could remain viable across multiple seasons.
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At the same time, I could see how this series could remain viable across multiple seasons.
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Therefore, the call to remove the burqa cannot be devoid of such a context and for Eltahawy to think that divorcing her criticism from such a context as viable is politically naïve.
Global Voices in English » Hijablogging: On Burqas and Bans 2009
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The only thing that makes this viable is copyright.
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But I still contend that "managing" wolves down to minimal numbers, just enough to stay viable, is foolish, unnecessary, and reeking of anthropic bias.
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But I still contend that "managing" wolves down to minimal numbers, just enough to stay viable, is foolish, unnecessary, and reeking of anthropic bias.
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