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Etymology

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From Latin ponere (to place).

Noun

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ponibility (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The capability of being placed or located.
    • 1734, Isaac Barrow, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, Lecture X, p. 176:
      Space is nothing else but the mere Power, Capacity, Ponibility, or (begging pardon for the Expressions) Interponibility of Magnitude.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ponibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)