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dialability

dialability noun: the potential to be dialed: the state or condition of being dialable.

Noun

dialability (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The potential to be dialed: the state or condition of being dialable.
    • […] simple scheme can provide direct-reading dialability in the programming of virtually any device controllable by discrete values of resistance, resistance ratio or voltage. Any application that conventionally uses a potentiometer as a control element is amenable to such digital dialability —...1971, Electromechanical Design, volume 15, page 27
    • Gen John R. Galvin argues, "Politics and culture impose a variety of constraints on strategy. These include limitations on the resources committed to defense as well as strictures on the use of military force."⁴ Because of the immediacy and "dialability" of airpower, these limits can easily come in...1996, Thomas P. Ehrhard, Making the Connection: An Air Strategy Analysis Framework, Air University Press, page 42

Origin of dialability

By surface analysis, dial + -ability, or, by surface analysis, dialable + -ity.

Questions about dialability

What does dialability mean?
Dialability means the potential to be dialed: the state or condition of being dialable.
What part of speech is dialability?
Dialability is a noun.

Words near dialability in the dictionary

  1. dial-in times
  2. dial-ins
  3. dial-up
  4. dial-ups
  5. dial.
  6. dialability
  7. dialable
  8. dialane
  9. dialate
  10. dialation
  11. dialdehyde

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