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transˈferrable, a.
Also 9 -ible.
[f. transfer v. + -able, on English analogies, as in transferring, barrable. Transferrible is a hybrid spelling between transferrable and analogical L. *transferibilis. See also transferable.]
Capable of being or fit to be transferred.
α1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 30 The offices..are alienable, communicable, and transferrable. 1714Act 1 Geo. I, c. 21 §19 That the said Capital or Joint Stock..shall be Assignable and Transferrable or Devisable. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 328 A new species of money, always ready to be employed in any beneficial undertaking, by means of it's transferrable quality. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. x, Sin was made a transferrable chattel. 1878Abney Photogr. xxvi. (1881) 176 Transferrable prints.
β1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 171 We believe the mean annual temperature of one zone to be transferrible to another. 1875Poste Gaius ii. §21 Similarly transferrible are estates in provincial lands.
Hence transˈferrableness, the quality of being transferrable.
1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 390 In reply to the objection of the transferrableness of machinery. |