twinnable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]twinnable (not comparable)
- (rare) That can be twinned.
- 1970, Philosophical Magazine:
- This is the case in any mechanically twinnable crystal, eg calcite...
- 2003, Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies:
- Death is always incongruous, for it never throws itself toward life as toward its twin or twinnable other.
- 2004, Chat-Yin Ho, Pham Huu Tiep, Finite Groups 2003: Proceedings of the Gainesville Conference on Finite Groups:
- Are buildings that conform to a blueprint twinnable? The immediate answer is no because there are examples conforming to some odd-ball blueprints...