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発音

• IPA: /ˈvaɪəbəl/
• 韻: -aɪəbəl
• ハイフネーション: vi‧a‧ble

形容詞

viable (comparative more viable, superlative most viable)

1. Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
2. Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.

   a viable option

3. Capable of working successfully
   • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:

     Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".

4. (biology) Able to live and develop.

反意語

• inviable

派生語

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名詞

viable (plural viables)

1. (biology) An organism that is able to live and develop.

Further reading

• “viable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “viable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “viable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.