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traversability

traversability noun: the condition of being traversable.

Noun

traversability (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being traversable.
    • In this research we investigated perception of traversability in infants making independent trips in an unfamiliar environment. The overall plan was to put young ambulatory infants in a novel situation where surfaces varying in properties defining traversability or nontraversability stretched...1994, E. J. Gibson, G. Riccio, M. A. Schmuckler, T. A. Stoffregen, D. Rosenberg, J. Taormina, “Detection of the traversability of surfaces by crawling and walking infants”, in Eleanor J. Gibson...

Antonyms of traversability

Origin of traversability

By surface analysis, traverse + -ability, or, by surface analysis, traversable + -ity.

Words formed from traversability

Questions about traversability

What does traversability mean?
Traversability means the condition of being traversable.
What part of speech is traversability?
Traversability is a noun.

Words near traversability in the dictionary

  1. travelworn
  2. Travemünde
  3. Traver
  4. travers
  5. Traversa
  6. traversability
  7. traversable
  8. traversables
  9. traversal
  10. traversals
  11. traversary

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