Transmutable

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transmutable \Trans*mut"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. transmutable. See
     {Transmute}.]
     Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different
     substance, or into into something of a different form a
     nature; transformable.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily
           transmutable into one another.           --Arbuthnot.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Trans*mut"a*ble*ness}, n. --
     {Trans*mut"a*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  transmutable
       adj : capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; "is
             lead really transmutable into gold?"; "ideas
             translatable into reality" [syn: {convertible}, {transformable},
              {translatable}]