transˈferrable, a.
Also 9 -ible.
[f. transfer v. + -able, on English analogies, as in transferring, barrable. Transferrible is a hybrid spelling between transferrable and analogical L. *transferibilis. See also transferable.]
Capable of being or fit to be transferred.
| α 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 30 The offices..are alienable, communicable, and transferrable. 1714 Act 1 Geo. I, c. 21 §19 That the said Capital or Joint Stock..shall be Assignable and Transferrable or Devisable. 1765 Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 328 A new species of money, always ready to be employed in any beneficial undertaking, by means of it's transferrable quality. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. x, Sin was made a transferrable chattel. 1878 Abney Photogr. xxvi. (1881) 176 Transferrable prints. |
| β 1832 Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 171 We believe the mean annual temperature of one zone to be transferrible to another. 1875 Poste Gaius ii. §21 Similarly transferrible are estates in provincial lands. |
Hence
transˈferrableness, the quality of being transferrable.
| 1804 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 390 In reply to the objection of the transferrableness of machinery. |