Frangible

Quick meaning: Frangible is an adjective meaning Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.

Meaning

Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.

More Meanings

1. Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.

Example Sentences

Another object still [of roasting iron ore], is to make the ore more frangible, that it may be easily broken into fragments of a suitable size for smelting.

A certain learned and curious Author gives us the following Characters or Properties of Glaſs, whereby it is diſtinguiſh'd from all other Bodies, viz. […] That it is frangible when thin, without annealing.

Is there some law of nature that states that an assassin can only use one kind of ammunition? Couldn't he just as easily load a frangible bullet and a nonfrangible one into his magazine as two frangibles or two regular, hardened rounds?

So, to make sure that I stay both current and deadly, I built the range, where the guys can sharpen their lethal talents, and—careful always to use only approved military weapons—I can sharpen mine. Shooting, after all, is a frangible skill. At SEAL Team Six we shot daily.

Word Forms

• frangibles

Synonyms for frangible

Depending on context, synonyms include fragmentable, breakable.

Antonyms for frangible

Common opposites include infrangible, indestructible, unbreakable, unfrangible.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breakable, difficultly, record, breakly, infractible, diffrangible.

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