Translatable Definition & Meaning

translatable
adjective
  1. capable of being put into another form or style or language; "substances readily translatable to the American home table"; "his books are eminently translatable"
  2. capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; "is lead really transmutable into gold?"; "ideas translatable into reality"

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