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deviable

deviable adjective: able to deviate or be deviated.

Adjective

deviable (comparative more deviable, superlative most deviable)

  1. Able to deviate or be deviated
    • Actinium gives out easily absorbed and penetrating deviable rays like those of radium, and also a radio-active emanation, which is more allied to the emanation of thorium than to that of radium.1904, Ernest Rutherford, Radio-activity, page 22

Forms of deviable

comparativemore deviable
superlativemost deviable

Words formed from deviable

Questions about deviable

What does deviable mean?
Deviable means able to deviate or be deviated.
What part of speech is deviable?
Deviable is an adjective.

Words near deviable in the dictionary

  1. devexities
  2. devexity
  3. DEVGRU
  4. devi
  5. Devi Kanya Kumari
  6. deviable
  7. deviance
  8. deviances
  9. deviancies
  10. deviancy
  11. deviant

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