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How to use acceptability in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Acceptability means the quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. Example: “The acceptability of a television picture is also governed by its size, colour and freedom from interfering signals, flicker and lininess.”

Examples of acceptability by meaning

nounThe quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

  • The acceptability of a television picture is also governed by its size, colour and freedom from interfering signals, flicker and lininess.1954, Edward Molloy, John Patrick Hawker, Television Engineers' Pocket Book, page 27

More sentences with acceptability

  • What should we think about the ethical acceptability of political conspiracy theorizing?2014, Juha Räikkä, Social Justice in Practice: Questions in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Springer, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry conspiracy theorize
  • The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome.2012, Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page 174. From the entry pleasuredome
  • Everyone had betrayed, hurt and abandoned her far beyond comprehension or acceptability.2010, Catherine Ann Sabatino, Voices in the Midst, page 203. From the entry ushering
  • The women's slimnastic group would have high acceptability while the youth weight- lifting group might not.1981, Jay Sanford Shivers, Joseph W. Halper, The Crisis in Urban Recreational Services, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry slimnastic
  • We’re already pushing the envelope of acceptability with a longer fork, the wheelspan and the sloping top tube.2009, Andrew Edwards, Fixed: Global Fixed-Gear Bike Culture, Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry wheelspan
  • Edward understands that his entrée into social acceptability is through his talent, and he wants to be accepted and loved.1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20. From the entry entrée
  • The aim of this act of strangification is to increase one's understandability and acceptability to many others, not to become other than oneself.2018, Ming Dong Gu, Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters. From the entry strangification
  • By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.2014, Joseph Brennan, “'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet”, in International Journal of…. From the entry whump
  • I'll have to check up on the current acceptability of using progressive constitutes in the modifier slots of gerundally nominalised perfect constitutes.2002 February 28, Mark Wallace, “Part of speech of "using"”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2026. From the entry gerundally
  • The speakers would at first over-generalize; they would have rules which would permit utterances which were outside the limits of acceptability in the matrilect.1971, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics III, parts 3–4, page 20. From the entry matrilect
  • For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'.2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture. From the entry trackside
  • Comparison of tolerators with intolerators showed that although both groups rated the taste acceptability of vegetables similarly, more vegetables showed an association between tolerance and high taste acceptability.1986, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews: Human and experimental (series A). From the entry intolerator
  • However, no data are available on the effectiveness, cost, and public acceptability (more complex system or inability to heat house as comfortably during very cold periods) of these proposals.1976 April, G. R. Offen et al., Control of Particulate Matter from Oil Burners and Boilers (EPA-450/3-76-005), Research Triangle Park…. From the entry underfire
  • It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability.1958, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society. From the entry conventional wisdom

Meaning of acceptability

  1. noun The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
  2. noun Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).

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Questions about acceptability in a sentence

How do you use acceptability in a sentence?
Acceptability is used as a noun. For example: “The acceptability of a television picture is also governed by its size, colour and freedom from interfering signals, flicker and lininess.”
What is a short sentence with acceptability?
“Everyone had betrayed, hurt and abandoned her far beyond comprehension or acceptability.”
What does acceptability mean?
Acceptability means the quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

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