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viable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Viable \Vi"a*ble\, a. [F., from vie life, L. vita. See {Vital}.] (Law) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant. Note: Unless he [an infant] is born viable, he acquires no rights, and can not transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never been born. --Bouvier. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: viable adj 1: capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are [syn: {feasible}, {practicable}, {workable}] 2: capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"
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