"degradable" meaning in English

See degradable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [dɪˈɡɹeɪdəbəɫ] [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-degradable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more degradable [comparative], most degradable [superlative]
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  1. Able to be chemically or biologically degraded. Translations (that which can be degraded): degradable (Catalan), afbreekbaar (Dutch), degradebla (Esperanto), hajoava (Finnish), dégradable (French), degradable (Galician), degradábel (Galician), abbaubar (German), αποικοδομήσιμος (apoikodomísimos) (Greek), lebomló (Hungarian), degradabile (Italian), podatny na rozkład (Polish), degradável (Portuguese), разлага́емый (razlagájemyj) (Russian), degradable (Spanish), nedbrytbar (Swedish), brytbar (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-degradable-en-adj-a58UUO9v Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 76 6 17 Disambiguation of 'that which can be degraded': 95 5
  2. (quantum mechanics) Having a complementary qubit channel and some third noise channel, such that adding the noise to the original channel replicates the complementary channel.
    Sense id: en-degradable-en-adj-RElXkFBI Categories (other): Quantum mechanics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: antidegradable, anti-degradable, biodegradable, nondegradable, oxodegradable, photodegradable, semidegradable, undegradable Related terms: degradation

Noun

IPA: [dɪˈɡɹeɪdəbəɫ] [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-degradable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: degradables [plural]
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  1. Any material that can be degraded or decomposed.
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Inflected forms

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