reproˈducible, a.
(riː-)
[f. as reproducer + -ible.]
That may be reproduced; admitting or susceptible of reproduction.
| 1834 H. Martineau Moral i. 4 The first constitutes fixed capital; the second and third reproducible capital. 1883 Fortn. Rev. 1 Aug. 275 The results of scientific discoveries..are, as a rule, reproducible at will. 1949 E. P. Abraham et al. in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. viii. xv. 637 The initial experiments were concerned with finding reproducible conditions for obtaining penicillin. 1972 Physics Bull. Jan. 15/1 Atomic clocks now provide a unit of time reproducible to 1 part in 1012. |
Hence reproˈducibly adv.
| 1961 Jrnl. Physical Chem. LXV. 317/2 The round cells were reproducibly positioned in the light beam which entered the thermostated mineral oil-bath through a window. 1974 Nature 13 Dec. 589/1 A survey of various brain regions of the rat revealed that cell-free fractions from the corpus striatum contained adenyl cyclase which was reproducibly activated by low concentrations of d-LSD. |