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TRANSLATABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does translatable mean?
• TRANSLATABLE (adjective)
The adjective TRANSLATABLE has 2 senses:
1. capable of being put into another form or style or language
2. capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
Familiarity information: TRANSLATABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being put into another form or style or language
Context example:
his books are eminently translatable
Antonym:
untranslatable (not capable of being put into another form or style or language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
Synonyms:
convertible; transformable; translatable; transmutable
Context example:
ideas translatable into reality
Similar:
commutable (subject to alteration or change)
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