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🧩 Can be taken apart 🪨 Made of fragments
clastic

clastic

9.7
A thing that can be taken apart and put back together easily
  • adjective
  • /ˈklæstɪk/
translation icon : clástico
  • She bought a clastic puzzle that can be disassembled and put back together easily.

Examples

  • The professor used a clastic anatomical model to demonstrate the structure of the brain.

  • Engineers examined the clastic prototype to understand its internal components.

  • The clastic model can be easily disassembled.

  • Is this structure clastic enough for our needs?

  • To better understand mechanics, the students worked with a clastic toy that could be taken apart and reassembled.

  • The workshop featured a clastic engineering model, allowing participants to explore its different configurations.

  • For her project, she selected a clastic structure that encouraged hands-on assembly and disassembly.

Synonyms

cleavable
vsclastic
  • Specialized
7.6

Can be split along a natural line or flat surface

is built to be taken apart and reassembled rather than broken

Compounds

clastic rock
  • Specialized
7.2

A rock that forms when small pieces of older rocks press and stick together

How Modular

reconfigurable
  • Specialized
1 6.4
modular
  • Specialized
17 5.4
clastic
9.7
detachable
9 3.5
fixed
1.0

Surface Forms

clastic positive

Morphology

clastic = clast (semi-transparent) = clast + ic

The adjective is formed from the combining form 'clast' + '-ic', but the sense 'capable of being taken apart and reassembled' extends the basic idea of 'broken fragments' to a manufactured, reassemblable property.

Etymology

Clastic comes from a Greek root clast- meaning 'broken into pieces'. Imagine a clastic model like a toy you can take apart and put back together, so clastic can mean 'able to be taken apart'.