Practicability
[,præktɪkə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,præktɪkə'bɪləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Feasibility, possibility, practicableness.
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A telegraph that could be worked with five circuits came within the range of practicability, and it was put into operation on the Great Western Railway as far as Slough, a distance of 18 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mr. Reid also notes as a very thorough test of the perfect practicability of the system, that it handled the President's message, December 3, 1876, of 12,600 words with complete success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I know it, Meg, for I've tried it, and I seldom give advice unless I've proved its practicability. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The means he employs of doing so are at present kept secret, but he has shown its practicability by copying, on wood engravings, Mr. George Cruikshank's series of The Bottle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Du Moncel, a distinguished electrician, who had written cynically about Edison's work and denied its practicability. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The practicability of this plan has undergone much discussion; its friends and foes being equally confident in their opinions. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Although this was not the first record of motion pictures, it served to demonstrate their practicability. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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