[ UK /hˈæbɪtəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈhæbətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. fit for habitation
    the habitable world
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How To Use habitable In A Sentence

  • First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
  • The hallmark of Earth, after all, is not its mass, nor its rockiness, nor the fact that it is potentially habitable. How Long Until We Find a Second Earth? | Disinformation
  • But if we had cheap loans, people could afford to make homes habitable and the rent would cover the loan. Times, Sunday Times
  • The themes begin with discovery, exploration and survival in the last habitable landmass discovered by humans.
  • Terraforming, or altering the atmosphere of Mars to make it habitable for humans, via planetary engineering processes, is still being discussed in planetary circles and is the seed to more current discussions of planetary or geo-engineering to reduce the impacts of global warming on our planet. Mel Averner - NASA Watch
  • Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores. MicrobiologyBytes
  • As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
  • —To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. II. Uniformity Of Change
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • And so we might name regions by the score that are practically unhabitable, which nevertheless produce things necessary to civilized man. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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