deployable

English

Etymology

From French déployable, deploy +‎ -able.

Adjective

deployable (comparative more deployable, superlative most deployable)

1. Able to be deployed.
   • 2005 October 31, A. Forster, Armed Forces and Society in Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 166:

     […] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel […]

2. (of an aircraft flight recorder) Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.
   • 2000, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal:

     It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)

   • 2002, Aircraft & Aerospace Asia-Pacific:

     For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.

Noun

deployable (plural deployables)

1. Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.