deployable
- adjective
- /dɪˈplɔɪəbl/
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desplegable
- By the way, the rendezvous radar, there's a deployable dish antenna that goes out of the payload Bay side of the payload Bay of the shuttle.
Examples
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Interestingly, string theory seems most elegant and most deployable if the Universe has ten or twenty-six dimensions, instead of the usual four.
Academic text (2004) -
The deployable booms for the spectrometers, for instance, could only be extended using railings that mimicked the space environment as closely as possible, although this was far from satisfactory, and they never worked particularly well on the ground.
Blog text (31) -
And I think I saw that there was a deployable mast, which is very Star Wars Y if, if I'm correct about that.
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So we said it was a portable canister, deployable fly attracting sticky tape, fly catching mechanism.
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Even the little details are top tier, like they're deployable clasp, no pressing about with cheap buckles.
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One of the highest priorities for future space missions of the United States astronomy community is a large deployable reflector (LDR) being designed for work in the far-infrared and submillimeter regions.
Academic text (1991) -
The tents were quickly set up because they were deployable and unfolded easily.
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In case of emergency, the deployable medical equipment can be activated rapidly.
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The army's deployable units can be assembled within minutes for quick response.
Synonyms
Can stretch to become longer, like a tongue or tape
How Deployable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deployable comes from the Latin root plicare meaning 'to fold' and the part de- meaning 'out', so deploy first meant 'to unfold' or 'spread out'. That is why deployable is used for things that can be opened, extended, or taken out of a small folded form so they are ready to use.