extractable, a.
(ɛkˈstræktəb(ə)l)
Also 8–9 -ible.
[f. prec. + -able.]
That may be extracted: a. gen. (cf. esp. senses 3, 4 of the vb.). b. Of a passage in a book, etc.: Suitable for extraction; quotable. c. Sc. Law. Of a judgement, etc.: Ready to be copied out for execution.
| 1675 Grew Anat. Plants Lect. vi. ii. §2 Their tastable parts [are] less easily extractable by the Tongue. 1776 Bentham Ch. Eng. (1818) 302 The profit extractible out of the expense. 1825 [see extract v. 3 b]. 1835 Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 380 We will now seek a humorous extractable passage. 1868 Act 31–32 Vict. c. 100 §63 The Court..shall..pronounce Judgment..and such Judgment shall be extractible in common Form. Ibid. c. 101 §51 The decree for such expenses shall be extractable by the extractor of the Court of Session. 1891 Times 13 July 11/3 The quantity of sugar extractable from the root [of beet]. |
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Add: Hence extractaˈbility n., the property of being extractable; the degree to which something is extractable.
| 1961 in Webster. 1972 Nature 22 Dec. 451/2 The extractability of pulse-labelled DNA is a function of the distance of that DNA from an extractable replication complex. 1986 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. Oct. 31/2 Initial tests..also indicated that the extractability of silver decreases as the degree of sulphur oxidation increases. |