Meanings
alternative modelable
- not comparableCapable of being modelled.
features not modellable as a service, but rather as a service attribute
1992, Paul Byerley, Stephen Connell, Integrated broadband communications: views from RACE - not comparableCapable of being moulded.
Usage and handling will soon indicate if the clay is modellable, and if it is highly plastic.
1968, Harold Powell, The Pottery Handbook of Clay, Glaze and Colour, page 322 more examples
[…] applying to at least part of the bottom of the mold cavity in said drag a coating of substantial thickness of a translucent, modellable plastic mass comprising finely divided acrylate moistened with a volatile liquid that is a non-solvent of acrylate and contains only a small quantity of an acrylate solvent,
1954, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 72For about 10 years, following the suggestion of Gluck who, as is well known, has used ivory for replacement of bony defects of the jaws and extremities, I have also used this very modellable material for correcting saddle noses and for total rhinoneoplasty usually with very good results.
1987, Jacques Joseph, Rhinoplasty and Facial Plastic Surgery, page 332
Origin
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