| 单词 |
feasibility |
| 释义 |
feasibility|ˌfiːzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next + -ity.]
The quality or fact of being feasible.
1. a. Capability of being done; practicability.
1624T. James in Abp. Ussher's Lett. (1686) 308 If he did turn away his mind wholly from Chelsey, I durst presume of more fasibility [sic] and possibility here of doing good. Ibid. 331 To give proof of the faisibility [sic] of the Work to the common profit of the Church. 1652Heylin Cosmogr. App. 196 The Excellency and feasibility of his invention. a1678Woodhead Holy Living (1688) 162 The alike easiness and faisibility of all things unto him. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Stone, According to the different circumstance of Difficulty or Feasibility of it. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 519 They changed their minds on the feasibility of their enterprise.
b. quasi-concr. Something feasible.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. v. 17 Men often swallow..fesibilities for possibilities [read possibilities for fesibilities], and things impossible for possibilities.
†2. Capability of being made. Obs.
1655in Ref. Commonw. Bees 33 My confident Assertion of the fecibility of Aqua vitæ out of grain unmalted.
3. attrib., as feasibility study.
1959Times 14 Jan. 2/5 Feasibility studies of new reactor systems. 1969Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 23/2 Initially, the consortium is to make a two-year ‘feasibility’ study. 1971Guardian 8 May 3/7 Britain is helping with a feasibility study for rice growing. |
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