Meaning

Suitable for being drilled through..

Definitions by Sense

1. Suitable for being drilled through.
2. (agriculture) Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
3. (computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
4. (robotics) Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
5. (education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).

Example Sentences

For rocks at the surface or within drillable depths, observations are primarily geological in nature, and, in general, they indicate great complexity in structure and great spatial variation in composition.

Land use restrictions in the eastern United States must be taken into account in determining the total drillable area.

Select a box of suitable shape (squarish), size (about 120 mm to 150 mm square), and material (non-brittle, drillable, cuttable plastic).

The pup is preequipped with a drillable, millable, or retrievable plug. Where fracturing is anticipated, these are often drillable or dissolvable ball-activated check valves.

In putting on fertilizers, care should be taken to see that the material is in good drillable condition.

All fertilizers tested are drillable at relative humidities below 50 per cent, but no fertilizer remains drillable when exposed to a humidity above its hygroscopic point.

In previous work (10) it was found that materials of low initial moisture content remained drillable for longer periods of time, but became undrillable at about the same moisture content as did materials of high initial moisture content.

To indicate to the business user of the report that more detailed information is available behind the summary group level, the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass icon when it floats over a drillable section (for example, the yellow count field of customer contacts, located in the Group Header #1 section).

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When Should You Use Drillable?

Use drillable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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