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From combine + -able.

combinable (comparative more combinable, superlative most combinable)

1. Able to be combined.

   Synonyms: mergeable, unitable

   Antonyms: divisible, separable

   • 1922, Aristotle [in translation], De Caelo:

     For instance, liquids are the most 'combinable' of all bodies — because, of all divisible materials, the liquid is most readily adaptable in shape, unless it be viscous.

   • 2022 June 1, Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein, Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 86:

     Candidate tasks cannot be too difficult or too easy, but they have to be divisible or combinable, so that they can be broken down into smaller chunks that can be solved independently by a potentially large group of contributors.

• “combinable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.bi.nabl/

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combinable (plural combinables)

1. combinable

• “combinable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /kombiˈnable/ [kõm.biˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: com‧bi‧na‧ble

combinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural combinables)

1. combinable

• “combinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025