English

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Etymology

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From French déployable, deploy +‎ -able.

Adjective

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deployable (comparative more deployable, superlative most deployable)

  1. Able to be deployed.
    • 2005 October 31, A. Forster, Armed Forces and Society in Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 166:
      [] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel []
  2. (of an aircraft flight recorder) Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.
    • 2000, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal:
      It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)
    • 2002, Aircraft & Aerospace Asia-Pacific:
      For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.

Noun

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deployable (plural deployables)

  1. Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.