Meaning

(obsolete) Arrangeable; classifiable..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Arrangeable; classifiable.
2. Varying within a range.
3. Able to be ranged or explored.
4. Having an adjustable range.
5. (computing) Supporting the use of ranges.
6. Providing information about the corresponding range; indicating territory or source.

Example Sentences

Here we see them no less rangeable into opposites of direction or locality; by which contrast their several powers may prove best understood.

Jurine and Desportes, who have written two excellent dissertations on angina pectoris, consider the disease as attributable to functional disorder of the heart and lungs, and as rangeable among the neuroses.

For as, whatever the perfectness of the educational system, there must remain infinite differences between the natures and capacities of men ; and these differing natures are generally rangeable under the two qualities of lordly, (or tending towards rule, construction, and harmony), and senile (or tending towards misrule, destruction, and discord) ; and, since the lordly part is only in a state of profitableness while ruling, and the servile only in a state of redeemableness while serving, the whole health of the state depends on the manifest separation of these two elements of its mind; for, if the servile part be not separated and rendered visible in service, it mixes with, and corrupts, the entire body of the state; and if the lordly part be not distinguished, and set to rule, it is crushed and lost, being turned to no account, so that the rarest qualities of the nation are all given to it in vain.

He couldn't describe and dismiss them collectively, call them either Mid-Victorian or Early; not being at all sure they were rangeable under one rubric.

The colour most prevailing in metals passes through all shades of white, of which the pure white of silver may be taken as the starting-point, and the blue white of lead the farthest remove from it; all otheres, with three exceptions, being rangeable between these two shades.

The real factors, it must be admitted in the long run, of our premature mortality, of our lean physique and peculiar American temperaments, are, after all, our variable and extremely rangeable climate?

This difference in the description of the species, and the lack of agreement as to whether the rangeable Parts are all Non-significant, are worth noting, for they constitute evidence of a genuine Stoic debate, and serve as a reminder (like the apparently distinct approaches to Elleipsis and Pleonasm) that there was no single, authoritative Stoic classification.

The most common is a low limit on vapor flow rate below which weeping can adversely affect tray efficiency and separation. The vapor limit depends on tray design, with valve trays being the most rangeable.

Word Forms

• more rangeable
• most rangeable

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