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dominable

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English

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Etymology

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From dominate +‎ -able.

Adjective

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dominable (comparative more dominable, superlative most dominable)

  1. Subject to domination; able to be dominated.
    • 1861, Isaak August Dorner, History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ:
      One part of the science of God is dominable by reason, is capable of being rationally cognised : this is the natural science of God, metaphysics.
    • 2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 289:
      Geertz, a pioneer of these processes (they are not yet frozen into "methods"), recognizes them as ways of handling the new world that has borne itself since World War II: a world of colliding cultures no longer dominated by Europeans and Americans, and no longer dominable by anyone.
    • - 2009, C. Boyd James, Garvey, Garveyism, and the antinomies in Black redemption, page 130:
      DuBois was slowed and occupied by the paralyzing madness of "Europe gone mad," "the terrible soul of white culture — back of all culture — stripped and visible" but still dominable.
  2. (mathematics) Order bounded in the universal completion.
    • 1978, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Owen Burkinshaw, Locally solid Riesz spaces, →ISBN, page 170:
      An important tool for the study of laterally complete Riesz spaces is the notion of the dominable set, which is introduced next.

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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dominar +‎ -able

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /domiˈnable/ [d̪o.miˈna.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: do‧mi‧na‧ble

Adjective

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dominable m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominables)

  1. That can be dominated; easy to dominate.

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