POSSIBLE ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does possible action mean? 

• POSSIBLE ACTION (noun)
  The noun POSSIBLE ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a possible alternative

  Familiarity information: POSSIBLE ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSSIBLE ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A possible alternative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

opening; possibility; possible action

Context example:

bankruptcy is always a possibility

Hypernyms ("possible action" is a kind of...):

alternative; choice; option (one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "possible action"):

possible (something that can be done)

 Context examples 

Although the findings about gullies point to processes that do not involve liquid water, possible action by liquid water on Mars has been reported in the past year in other findings from the HiRISE team.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)