Meaning of unhandleable | Babel Free

Definitions

That cannot be handled.

Examples

“The difficulty of controlling the size and distribution of such defects leads to a spread⟳ of strengths obtained from an otherwise identical set⟳ of test⟳ bars, and it is partly this lack of an equivalent to the relatively consistent yield⟳ stress⟳ or ultimate tensile strength of metals that has resulted in the dubbing of ceramics as unreliable and unhandlable.”

“I confide a little of this – my new, unhandle-able worry⟳ – and he recommends I read⟳ The Metamorphosis by Kafka (Bantam Classics, 1972).”

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