frangible
(adjective) capable of being broken; “the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
frangible (comparative more frangible, superlative most frangible)
Able to be broken; breakable, fragile. [from early 15th c.]
The word is often used to refer to objects which are made intentionally breakable, either as part of their operation (such as frangible bullets and frangible nuts), or for use in an emergency (such as frangible light poles or smoke outlet panels).
• fragmentable (not idiomatically interchangeable although denotatively equal)
• infrangible, indestructible, nonbrittle, unbreakable, unfragile
• unfrangible (obsolete)
frangible (plural frangibles)
Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.
Source: Wiktionary
Fran"gi*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. frangible.]
Definition: Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
