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Definition of Permissible

1. Adjective. That may be permitted especially as according to rule. "A permissible tax deduction"

2. Adjective. That may be accepted or conceded. "A kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine"

Definition of Permissible

1. a. That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.

Definition of Permissible

1. Adjective. permitted. ¹

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Definition of Permissible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permissible

permie permies permillage permillages permille permineralization permineralized perming permingeatite permiscible

permiss permissable permisses permissibilities permissibility permissible (current term) permissible exposure limit permissibleness permissibly permission

permissionless permissions permissive permissive cell permissive temperature permissive waste permissively permissiveness permissivities permissivity

Literary usage of Permissible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"... "permissible" EXPLOSIVES "permissible" explosives are coal mining explosives which have passed the prescribed tests of the Bureau of Mines and are ..."

2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Statement by Taft, J., of permissible restraints. In a leading case decided by the Circuit Court of Appeals,46 Taft, J., thus summarized what the law ..."

3. Mental Fatigue: A Comprehensive Exposition of the Nature of Mental Fatigue by Max Offner (1911)
"Is it permissible that pupils be fatigued? But we must first answer another question of importance to the teacher. Is it permissible that pupils should be ..."

4. Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws by Henry Campbell Black (1911)
"When Consideration of Effects and Consequences permissible. 39. Presumptions in Aid of Interpretation. 40. Presumption Against Exceeding Limitations of ..."

5. A Treatise on International Law by William Edward Hall, Alexander Pearce Higgins (1917)
"That the act is somewhat less violent a breach of ordinary rule than the acts hitherto mentioned does not however render laxity of conduct permissible, ..."

6. Concrete-steel Construction (Der Eisenbetonbau) by Emil Mörsch (1909)
"D. permissible STRESSES Sec. 16 1. In members subjected to flexure, ... If a greater shearing strength is possible, the permissible stress is not to be more ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The limit of permissible error of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is .02 X. \/ distance in miles, the product expressed in feet. ..."

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