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appliancelike

appliancelike adjective: resembling an appliance.

Adjective

appliancelike (comparative more appliancelike, superlative most appliancelike)

  1. Resembling an appliance
    • That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise.2007 July 16, John Markoff, “A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee”, in New York Times

Forms of appliancelike

comparativemore appliancelike
superlativemost appliancelike

Origin of appliancelike

From appliance + -like.

Questions about appliancelike

What does appliancelike mean?
Appliancelike means resembling an appliance.
What part of speech is appliancelike?
Appliancelike is an adjective.

Words near appliancelike in the dictionary

  1. appliably
  2. appliance
  3. appliance computer
  4. appliance computers
  5. applianced
  6. appliancelike
  7. appliances
  8. applicabilities
  9. applicability
  10. applicable
  11. applicableness

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