shadeable

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A form of shadable — Of a drawing, etc.: capable of being shaded.

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Meanings

adjectiveshadeable (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of shadable.

    This might seem like a special case, but everything in the model should have been created with an eye to making it easily shadeable. Often this is expressed through the naming and grouping of components that make up the model.

    2003, Mark Adams, Max Sims, Erick Miller, Inside Maya 5, volume 1, page 222
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    The draughtsman could not have held the sheet with the apse at the tip, for then, instead of shading away from the edge, most of his hatched lines would begin in the uncharted middle ground of a shadeable area, to strike against the contour; […]

    1960, Leo Steinberg, San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane: A Study in Multiple Form and Architectural Symbolism

Origin

From shade + -able.

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APA

shadeable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shadeable

MLA

“shadeable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shadeable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shadeable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shadeable.

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