detachable

See also: détachable

English

Etymology

From French détachable, detach +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dətætʃəbl̩/, /diːtætʃəbl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

detachable (not comparable)

1. Designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage.
   • 1967, Ann Helen Stroup, An Investigation of the Dress of American Children from 1930 Through 1941 with Emphasis on Factors Influencing Change, page 195:

     Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric.

Derived terms

• nondetachable

Related terms

• demountable, dismantlable

Translations

designed to be unfastened

• Bulgarian: отделяем (otdeljaem), подвижен (bg) (podvižen)
• Danish: aftagelig, løs (da)
• Finnish: irrotettava
• French: amovible (fr), détachable (fr) m or f
• Galician: separable (gl) m or f
• Greek: αφαιρούμενος (afairoúmenos), αποσπάσιμος (apospásimos), αποσπώμενος (el) (apospómenos)
• Hungarian: leválasztható (hu), levehető (hu)
• Italian: distaccabile, estraibile (it), rimovibile (it), separabile, staccabile
• Manx: so-scarrey, yn-scarrey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avtagbar, avtakbar

  Nynorsk: avtakbar

• Portuguese: destacável m or f
• Russian: отделя́емый (ru) (otdeljájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одво̀јив, раздво̀јив

  Roman: odvòjiv (sh), razdvòjiv (sh)

• Spanish: separable, de quita y pon (es)

Noun

detachable (plural detachables)

1. Any device that is designed so that it can be detached from something else.
   • 2015 November 5, Jack Schofield, “Which laptop should we buy for our child?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     For the past few months, the red HP Pavilion X2 10-n055na has been my pick of the detachables at £249.99.