manufacturable
- adjective
- /ˌmænəˈfækʧərəbəl/
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fabricable
- The software gave engineering teams early insight into the manufacturing and assembly costs associated with product design and provided a structured way of analyzing designs so engineers could create products that are manufacturable and easy to assemble.
- manufacturable products
- manufacturable volume
Examples
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To ensure the prototype was manufacturable, they considered the materials and processes used in mass production.
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The new design for the smartphone case is manufacturable and can be produced on a large scale.
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Chip yield must support manufacturable volumes for each sort point.
Academic text (1999) -
They are building plants, making things manufacturable, and adding them to their growing GDP.
Blog text (16) -
The work on the Star series commercial microprocessors has shown that it is possible to integrate aggressively designed components in testable and manufacturable products.
Academic text (2000) -
They figured that if design engineers better understood manufacturing processes and if manufacturing engineers better understood how mechanical engineers do their jobs, they'd work together toward the most manufacturable products.
Academic text (2004) -
Engineers are working on a manufacturable model of the vehicle that can be built efficiently in factories.
Synonyms
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3.9
Able to be made in factories in large amounts
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3.7
Can be done or finished
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3.6
Possible to create or build
How Manufacturable
Surface Forms
Morphology
manufacturable = manufacture (transparent) = manufacture + able
The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'manufacture' plus the productive suffix '-able', yielding the meaning 'capable of being manufactured'.
Etymology
Manufacturable comes from the word manufacture, which joins manu- ('hand')—the same 'manu' you see in manual—and -fact- ('to make'), plus the ending -able ('can be'). So manufacturable literally means 'can be made', and we use it for designs or products that can be produced in a factory.