demountable

English

Etymology

From demount +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

demountable (comparative more demountable, superlative most demountable)

1. Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled.

   Synonyms: dismantlable, dismantleable

2. (computing, of a hard drive, dated) Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.

Related terms

• detachable

Translations

able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled

• Catalan: desmuntable
• French: démontable (fr) m or f
• Galician: desmontable (gl) m or f, desmontábel (gl) m or f
• German: demontierbar (de), zerlegbar (de)
• Italian: smontabile (it) m or f
• Portuguese: desmontável m or f
• Spanish: desmontable

Noun

demountable (plural demountables)

1. (Australia) A temporary and portable building, especially a portable classroom in a school.
   • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 4:

     A whole row of demountables has been abandoned, the window bagged with bright orange plastic.

   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 31:

     She opened the door and looked out into the broad passageway between the wings of the demountable.