Communicable

//kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be transmitted between people or animals.

    "(but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)"

  2. 2
    Readily communicated.
  3. 3
    Talkative or expansive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    readily communicated wordnet
  2. 2
    (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection wordnet

Synonyms

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transmissibleallowableassignablebequeathablebestowablecatching

Example

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"Good conductors of heat are usually good conductors of electricity, but that puts the causal relation backwards. Conduction-band electrons can't help but transport kinetic energy, which--randomized--is heat. Putting heat before electricity is reasonable only because of the rarity of materials like diamond that conduct heat via the quasi-particles called phonons, which are communicable crystal-lattice vibrations."

Etymology

From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.

Related phrases

communicable diseasecommunicable scale

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