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
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
