英和和英

語源

maturable +‎ -ity

名詞

maturability (uncountable)

1. The state of being maturable, or the quality of being able to mature.
   • Ron Fimrite, Article: "This Guy Tatana's no Second Banana", Sports Illustrated July 11, 1977 Issue

     Asked to explain how it is that Frank Tanana, a stripling who turned 24 this week and a lefthander, should pitch with the wisdom of a 15-year veteran, Muffett paused for a moment, groping for the mot juste, and then plunged headlong into the mainstream of sesquipedalianism. "Frank," he said, "has excellent maturability." He paused again. "If there is such a word, that is." Well, there certainly is now, and we may expect to hear it again and again from pitching savants—"He's got good velocity and location. It's his maturability we're worried about."

   • L. Fitz-Gibbon, G.B. Price, A.K. Sullivan in the British Journal of Haematology, 1983

     The concurrent loss of the characteristic of maturability and the phenotype of myeloid commitment suggests that the control of the two phenomena may be related.

   • "Tea Talks" (no author listed), The Education Times, February 06, 2009.

     Much research is conducted by botanists, biotechnologists and other scientists, who study methods of producing disease-resistant, high yielding varieties of tea, as also strainsthat produce leaves that are natural blends of various teas. They receive advice from tea tasters on commercial factors like taste, economic viability and maturability of tea.