What is the meaning of POSSIBLE. Phrases containing POSSIBLE
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A word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who, what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possible or supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. It is sometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb.
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Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
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Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
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An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer.
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Possible; probable, but not sure.
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A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
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Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
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The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration.
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Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.
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Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
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The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.
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Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
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Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated.
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Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.
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An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.
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Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
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An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
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Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.
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Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
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The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
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