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com·mu·ni·ca·ble    Audio Help   [kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buhl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
2.talkative; communicative.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL commūnicābilis, equiv. to commūnicā(re) (see communicate) + -bilis -ble]

com·mu·ni·ca·bil·i·ty, com·mu·ni·ca·ble·ness, noun
com·mu·ni·ca·bly, adverb
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com·mu·ni·ca·ble    Audio Help   (kə-myōō'nĭ-kə-bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
  2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
  3. Talkative.

com·mu'ni·ca·bil'i·ty, com·mu'ni·ca·ble·ness n., com·mu'ni·ca·bly adv.
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communicable

adjective
1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching
2. readily communicated; "communicable ideas" 

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communicable    Audio Help   (kə-my'nĭ-kə-bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
Capable of being transmitted from a person or animal to another person or animal, either through direct or indirect transmission, including insect or other vectors. Chickenpox is a communicable disease.

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Communicable

Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.]

1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv.
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