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jettisonable

jettisonable adjective: capable of being jettisoned.

Adjective

jettisonable (comparative more jettisonable, superlative most jettisonable)

  1. Capable of being jettisoned.
    • A backup method for the spin recovery parachute system is jettisonable ballast.2003, Ralph D. Kimberlin, chapter 34, in Flight Testing of Fixed-Wing Aircraft, →ISBN, page 406

Forms of jettisonable

comparativemore jettisonable
superlativemost jettisonable

Origin of jettisonable

From jettison + -able.

Questions about jettisonable

What does jettisonable mean?
Jettisonable means capable of being jettisoned.
What part of speech is jettisonable?
Jettisonable is an adjective.

Words near jettisonable in the dictionary

  1. jetting off
  2. jettingly
  3. jettings
  4. jettison
  5. jettisonability
  6. jettisonable
  7. jettisoned
  8. jettisoning
  9. jettisonings
  10. jettisons
  11. jetton

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