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curable

curable

5.1
Able to become hard by heat or chemicals
  • adjective
  • /ˈkjʊrəbəl/
  • Specialized
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  • An additional advantage of being curable with visible light is that the adhesive can be used with those colored plastics and glass that do not transmit UV light.

Examples

  • The technician explained that the UV light made the resin curable within minutes.

  • This type of paint is curable by a special additive that helps it harden quickly.

  • You know, they're UV curable polymers that are used for a lot of things like contact lenses and things like that.

  • The recording layer was sandwiched between an ultraviolet curable resin layer and an adhesive material layer.

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  • Drawing on his research into rapid prototyping, Griffith created a low-cost system for producing eyeglass lenses by depositing UV-curable resin onto a programmable, flexible membrane.

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  • The engineer recommended a curable polymer for the project due to its strength and durability.

Synonyms

treatable
vscurable
  • Specialized
31 3.5

A condition a doctor or medicine can cure

refers specifically to substances hardened by an added agent

Surface Forms

curable positive

Morphology

curable = cure (semi-transparent) = cure + able

Morphologically regular (verb + -able), but the technical sense of 'cure' meaning 'to harden or set' (in resins/polymers) is specialized and may be unfamiliar to average learners.

Etymology

Curable for materials also comes from the root cure, which here means 'to set' or 'to finish' a material. So a curable glue or plastic is one that can be made hard or fixed into its final form.