Unhandleable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That cannot be handled.
"The difficulty of controlling the size and distribution of such defects leads to a spread of strengths obtained from an otherwise identical set of test bars, and it is partly this lack of an equivalent to the relatively consistent yield stress or ultimate tensile strength of metals that has resulted in the dubbing of ceramics as unreliable and unhandlable."
Example
More examples"The difficulty of controlling the size and distribution of such defects leads to a spread of strengths obtained from an otherwise identical set of test bars, and it is partly this lack of an equivalent to the relatively consistent yield stress or ultimate tensile strength of metals that has resulted in the dubbing of ceramics as unreliable and unhandlable."
Etymology
From un- + handleable.
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