convertable

Adjective

convertible (comparative more convertible, superlative most convertible)

1. Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
   • As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VI, Two Centuries”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)
2. (historical) Able to be exchanged for specie.
3. Able to be exchanged for foreign currency.
   • Seven months ago Prime Minister Ante Marković, a Croat, attacked Yugoslavia's 2,600 percent inflation rate by making the dinar convertible to Western currencies and lopping off four zeroes.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 110
4. Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
5. Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
6. (obsolete) Able to be turned in a different direction.
   • The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature.1635, Nathanael Carpenter, Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes (1.4.77)

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