How To Use frangibility In A Sentence
- I think the term for payment being divisible into small particles is ‘frangibility’.
- I love everything about it: its translucency, its frangibility, its ragged edges, its bruises and discolorations. Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
- If we hold with Professor Allman that thought, will, and conscience, though only manifesting themselves through the medium of cerebral protoplasm, are not its properties any more than the invisible earth elements which lie beyond the violet are the property of the medium which, by altering their refrangibility, makes them its own -- then the study of the exact nature and properties of the transmitting medium is equally necessary. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
- But Sir Isaac has shown that dioptric telescopes cannot be brought to a greater perfection, because of that refraction, and of that very refrangibility, which at the same time that they bring objects nearer to us, scatter too much the elementary rays. Letter XVI-On Sir Isaac Newton’s Optics
- Dogs and young horses, with those which have become sufficiently aged for their bones to have acquired an enhanced degree of frangibility, are more liable than those which have not exceeded the time of their prime. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- Four years at one school give opportunities which are illimitable, but the present writer knew neither of them in the bread-and-butter period, and was properly reproved by the one and snubbed by the other when, in the supposed superiority of his years and co-extensive views on the frangibility of feminine friendship, he had sought to raise the veil of the past and peer into the archives of those school-days. Marion's Faith.
- According to rigid Newtonians, air is transparent, or, rather, invisible; and the azure colour of the atmosphere arises from the greater refrangibility of the blue rays of light. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
- The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The principal experiments also indicate that it is the rays of highest refrangibility -- the blue-violet and ultra-violet rays of the spectrum -- which bring about the destruction of the organisms (figs. 17, 18). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- Technical criteria of interest for this application include density, frangibility, and barrel wear. Alternatives for significant uses of lead in Massachusetts