constructible

English

Alternative forms

• constructable

Etymology

construct +‎ -ible

Adjective

constructible (not comparable)

1. Of a land, suitable or allowable for constructing a building on.
2. Of a building or other thing, capable of being constructed.
3. (geometry, of a regular polygon) That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
4. (mathematics, of a complex number) Such that the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
5. (algebraic geometry, of a subset of the spectrum of a noetherian ring) Admitting description as a finite union of locally closed (with respect to the Zariski topology) sets.

Synonyms

• buildable

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “all meanings”): inconstructible
• (antonym(s) of “capable of being constructed”): destructible

Translations

suitable for constructing a building

• French: constructible (fr)
• German: bebaubar
• Greek: οικοδομήσιμος (el) (oikodomísimos)
• Italian: costruibile
• Japanese: 建設に適した (ja) (kensetsu ni tekishita)
• Romanian: construibil (ro) m
• Spanish: construible

capable of being constructed

• French: constructible (fr)
• German: baubar
• Italian: costruibile
• Japanese: 建てられる (ja) (taterareru), 造れる (ja) (tsukureru) (colloquial), 成り立つ (ja) (naritatsu)
• Romanian: construibil (ro) m
• Spanish: construible

Further reading

• constructible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

constructible (plural constructibles)

1. constructible

Further reading

• “constructible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.