CONTROLLABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does controllable mean? 

• CONTROLLABLE (adjective)
  The adjective CONTROLLABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being controlled

  Familiarity information: CONTROLLABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTROLLABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being controlled

Synonyms:

controllable; governable

Similar:

manageable (capable of being managed or controlled)

 Context examples 

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has evolved from a controllable nuisance into a serious public health concern.

(Antibiotic Combinations May Combat MRSA Infections, NIH)

Her temper was naturally the easiest of the two; her feelings, though quick, were more controllable, and education had not given her so very hurtful a degree of self-consequence.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Currently, scientists grow neurons in petri dishes to study their behavior in a controllable environment.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Under pressure, the planes are pressed together, gradually and controllable pushing the system from three to two dimensions, and from insulator to metal.

(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)

Administration of HSV-TK-transduced lymphocytes after T cell-depleted allogeneic stem cell transplantation allows an early controllable immune reconstitution, which takes advantage of the antitumor effect of donor lymphocytes and helps to mitigate the risk of post-transplant opportunistic infection.

(HSV-TK-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

A preparation of donor T-lymphocytes that are transfected with a retroviral vector encoding a chimeric suicide gene consisting of the extracellular and transmembrane domains of human CD34 and mutant 75 of the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK75) with potential controllable immunomodulating activity.

(CD34/TK75 Retroviral Vector-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)