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Absorbability
Absorbability Ab*sorb`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The state or quality of being absorbable. --Graham
(Chemistry).
Acceptability
Acceptability Ac*cept`a*bil"i*ty, n. [LL. acceptabilitas.]
The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
``Acceptability of repentance.' --Jer. Taylor.
Accountability
Accountability Ac*count`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to
render an account; accountableness. ``The awful idea of
accountability.' --R. Hall.
Acquirability
Acquirability Ac*quir"a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.]
--Paley.
Adaptability
Adaptability A*dapt`a*bil"i*ty, Adaptableness
A*dapt"a*ble*ness, n.
The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. ``General
adaptability for every purpose.' --Farrar.
Admirability
Admirability Ad`mi*ra*bil"i*ty, n. [L. admirabilitac.]
Admirableness. [R.] --Johnson.
Adorability
Adorability A*dor`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Adorableness.
Advisability
Advisability Ad*vis`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being advisable; advisableness.
Alienability
Alienability Al`ien*a*bil"i*ty, n.
Capability of being alienated. ``The alienability of the
domain.' --Burke.
Amability
Amability Am`a*bil"i*ty, n. [L. amabilitas.]
Lovableness. --Jer. Taylor.
Note: The New English Dictionary (Murray) says this word is
``usefully distinct from Amiability.'
Amenability
Amenability A*me`na*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. --Coleridge.
Amiability
Amiability A`mi*a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of
disposition.
Every excellency is a degree of amiability. --Jer.
Taylor.
Amicability
Amicability Am`i*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
--Ash.
Amovability
Amovability A*mov`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] --T.
Jefferson.
Applicability
Applicability Ap`pli*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
Approachability
Approachability Ap*proach`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
Assignability
Assignability As*sign`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being assignable.
Assimilability
Assimilability As*sim`i*la*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being assimilable. [R.] --Coleridge.
Associability
Associability As*so`cia*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being associable, or capable of association;
associableness. ``The associability of feelings.' --H.
Spencer.
Attainability
Attainability At*tain`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being attainable; attainableness.
Attractability
Attractability At*tract`a*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality or fact of being attractable. --Sir W. Jones.
Autostability
Autostability Au`to*sta*bil"i*ty, n. [Auto- + stability.]
(Mechanics)
Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An
a["e]roplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise
by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is
automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of
self-operative mechanism.
AvailabilitiesAvailability A*vail`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Availabilities.
1. The quality of being available; availableness.
Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of
``mere availableness,' or capability of success
without regard to worthiness.
He was . . . nominated for his availability.
--Lowell.
2. That which is available. AvailabilityAvailability A*vail`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Availabilities.
1. The quality of being available; availableness.
Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of
``mere availableness,' or capability of success
without regard to worthiness.
He was . . . nominated for his availability.
--Lowell.
2. That which is available. Calculus of probabilitiesCalculus Cal"cu*lus, n.; pl. Calculi. [L, calculus. See
Calculate, and Calcule.]
1. (Med.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the
body, but most frequent in the organs that act as
reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as,
biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
2. (Math.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning
by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may
involve calculation.
Barycentric calculus, a method of treating geometry by
defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other
points to which co["e]fficients or weights are ascribed.
Calculus of functions, that branch of mathematics which
treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given
conditions.
Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic
that treats of all operations that satisfy given
conditions.
Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the
computation of the probabilities of events, or the
application of numbers to chance.
Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which
the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities
together are themselves subject to change.
Differential calculus, a method of investigating
mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain
indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The
problems are primarily of this form: to find how the
change in some variable quantity alters at each instant
the value of a quantity dependent upon it.
Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of
exponents.
Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations
of real or imaginary quantities by the use of the
imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra.
Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the
differential, the primary object of which is to learn from
the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two
or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes
themselves, or, in other words, from having the
differential of an algebraic expression to find the
expression itself. CapabilitiesCapability Ca`pa*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Capabilities.
1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp.
intellectual power or ability.
A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.
--H. Taylor.
2. Capacity of being used or improved. CapabilityCapability Ca`pa*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Capabilities.
1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp.
intellectual power or ability.
A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.
--H. Taylor.
2. Capacity of being used or improved. Changeability
Changeability Change`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Changeableness.
Coagulability
Coagulability Co*ag`u*la*bil"i*ty, n.
The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being
coagulated. --Ure.
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