able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed
shiftable furniture
2.
able to be transferred from one owner to another
shiftable stocks and bonds
Word origin
[1735–45; shift + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1735–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cutoff, editorial, injector, tandem, tutorial-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'shiftable' in a sentence
shiftable
The loads may be further subdivided into permanent loads, mandatory loads and shiftable loads.
Enrico Fabrizio, Valeria Branciforti, Marco Filippi, Silvia Barbero, Giuseppe Tecco 2013, 'Modelling and optimization of a local smart grid for an agro-industrial site', Journal of Agricultural Engineeringhttp://www.agroengineering.org/index.php/jae/article/view/353. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Control variables are working state quantities of the time-shiftable loads and input-output state quantities of energy storages in dispatching periods.
Yuzhu Wang, Huanna Niu, Lu Yang, Weizhou Wang, Fuchao Liu 2018, 'An Optimization Method for Local Consumption of Photovoltaic Power in a Facility AgricultureMicro Energy Network', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/6/1503. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)