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gradability

[grey-duh-bil-i-tee]

noun Transportation.

a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.

Also, gradeability.

Compare grade (def. 9).

Origin:
1950–55; grade + -ability

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Gradability has a plethora of syllables.

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given to using long words.

a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

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gradable (ˈɡreɪdəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	capable of being graded
2.	linguistics denoting or relating to a word in whose meaning there is some implicit relationship to a standard: ``big'' and ``small'' are gradable adjectives

—n
3.	linguistics a word of this kind

grada'bility

—n

'gradableness

—n

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