ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Drillable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Drillable is an adjective meaning Suitable for being drilled through.

Meaning

Suitable for being drilled through.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drillproof, boreable, boring, frackable, borable, blastable.

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