drillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drill + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For rocks at the surface or within drillable depths, observations are primarily geological in nature, and, in general, they indicate great complexity in structure and great spatial variation in composition.
ref: 1977, J. G. Heacock, The Earth's Crust, page 243:
text: Land use restrictions in the eastern United States must be taken into account in determining the total drillable area.
ref: 1979, Devonian Shale Task Group of the National Petroleum Council Committee on Unconventional Gas Sources, page 57:
text: Select a box of suitable shape (squarish), size (about 120 mm to 150 mm square), and material (non-brittle, drillable, cuttable plastic).
ref: 2007, Owen Bishop, Robot Builder's Cookbook: Build and Design Your Own Robots:
text: The pup is preequipped with a drillable, millable, or retrievable plug. Where fracturing is anticipated, these are often drillable or dissolvable ball-activated check valves.
ref: 2018, Les Skinner, Hydraulic Rig Technology and Operations, page 306:
glosses: Suitable for being drilled through.
examples: text: In putting on fertilizers, care should be taken to see that the material is in good drillable condition.
ref: 1915, Farm Machinery and Equipment, page 16:
text: All fertilizers tested are drillable at relative humidities below 50 per cent, but no fertilizer remains drillable when exposed to a humidity above its hygroscopic point.
ref: 1930, Experiment Station Record - Volume 63, page 582:
text: In previous work (10) it was found that materials of low initial moisture content remained drillable for longer periods of time, but became undrillable at about the same moisture content as did materials of high initial moisture content.
ref: 1958, Charles W. Gantt, Walter C. , Herbert F. Rapp, John O. Hardesty Hulburt, “Determining the Drillability of Fertilizers”, in Soil and Crop Studies at the Big Spring (Texas) Field Station:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
examples: text: To indicate to the business user of the report that more detailed information is available behind the summary group level, the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass icon when it floats over a drillable section (for example, the yellow count field of customer contacts, located in the Group Header #1 section).
ref: 2006, Neil FizGerald, James Edkins, Annette Jonker, Michael Voloshko, Crystal Reports XI Official Guide, page 188:
text: If a report has a pivot table with drillable elements, then the report should make the pivot table available through a view selector that also contains a tabular view.
ref: 2009, Amy Mayer, Kevin McGinley, Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Dashboard and Report Best Practices, page 19:
text: We spent some time discussing the notion of 'drillable' experiments, which can be introduced to students at an early age, then periodically revisited and explored in greater detail as students progress through their educational careers.
ref: 2015, Vânia Zuin, Liliana Mammino, Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education:
text: Although spreadability and drillability often work in opposing directions, with spreadable media generally reaching a larger, less engaged audience, and drillable media typically reaching a smaller, yet more engaged one, the possibility exists for a text to be simultaneously spreadable and drillable (Mittell, “Forensic Fandom”).
ref: 2017, Matt Yockey, Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe, page 237:
text: Lost became a bit of a cultural sensation and has inspired a wide range of drillable TV series such as Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Severance. Each of these shows teased the audience with the nature of its basic reality yet had deeply loyal fans who scoured episodes for possible theories concerning the uncertain storylines.
ref: 2023, Charles Soukup, Christina R. Foust, Popular Culture in Everyday Life, page 127:
topics: computing
education
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: media studies
glosses: Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
examples: text: The drillable centre-line determining device disclosed in this patent takes the form of an interposer which has on its underside a projecting location pin perpendicular to its upper surface which acts as a planarisation platform.
ref: 1984, Robotics Technology Abstracts - Volume 3, page 280:
text: A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.
ref: 1987, R. E. Trahan, Applied Identification, Modelling and Simulation, page 107:
text: For the drillable robot, the position of the end link (location of u₅ and u₆) is given.
ref: 1991, Robert E. Parkin, Applied Robotic Analysis, page 175:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
examples: text: A second explanation and provision for practice of drillable items will reinforce your presentation for those who need a second exposure.
ref: 1987, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Educational Psychology, page 83:
text: Both the drillable subject matter and the types of test that measure it make cheating especially easy (see p. 229).
ref: 2014, Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't, page 200:
text: Deconstruct complex tasks like speaking a language, playing a sport or writing an essay into a set of small, specific drillable elements.
ref: 2023, Tom Sherrington, WalkThru 5-step guides to build great teaching, page 238:
topics: education
glosses: Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).
Derived terms: undrillable