gradability

  • 1gradability — /gray deuh bil i tee/, n. Transp. a measure of a truck s pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load. Also, gradeability. Cf. grade (def. 9). [1950 55; GRADE + ABILITY] * * * …

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  • 2gradability — noun The property of being gradable …

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  • 3gradability — /gray deuh bil i tee/, n. Transp. a measure of a truck s pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load. Also, gradeability. Cf. grade (def. 9). [1950 55; GRADE + ABILITY] …

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  • 4gradeability — /gray deuh bil i tee/, n. Transp. gradability. * * * …

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  • 5gradable — grad|a|ble [ˈgreıdəbəl] adj an adjective which is gradable can be used in the ↑comparative or ↑superlative forms, or with words such as very or fairly >gradability [ˌgreıdəˈbılıti] n [U] …

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  • 6gradable — adjective Grammar denoting an adjective that can be used in the comparative and superlative and take a submodifier. Derivatives gradability noun …

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  • 7gradable — adjective an adjective which is gradable can be used in the comparative 1 (4) or superlative 1 (2) forms, or with words such as very , fairly , and almost gradability noun (U) …

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  • 8adjective — 1. general. The term adjective was itself an adjective for a hundred years before it became used as a noun for one of the parts of speech. Joseph Priestley, in The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761), was perhaps the first English grammarian to… …

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