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(ə-vā'lə-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Present and ready for use; at hand; accessible: kept a fire extinguisher available at all times.
  2. Capable of being gotten; obtainable: a bedspread available in three colors.
  3. Qualified and willing to serve or assist: a list of available candidates; was not available for comment.
    1. Chemistry. Capable of being used in a chemical reaction: available electrons.
    2. Botany. Present, as in soil, and capable of being used by plants as a nutrient: available water; available minerals.
  4. Archaic.
    1. Capable of bringing about a beneficial result or effect.
    2. Law. Valid. Used especially of a plea.
availability a·vail'a·bil'i·ty or a·vail'a·ble·ness n.
availably a·vail'a·bly adv.

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adjective

    Capable of being obtained or used: acquirable, attainable, gettable, obtainable, procurable. Idioms: on hand, to be had. See get/lose.

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adj

Definition: ready for use
Antonyms: unavailable, unhandy, unobtainable

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Possible to get, use, or reach.

pronunciation Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

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The proportion of a specific nutrient or chemical in soil or in animal feed that is available for absorption by plants or by animals that eat the plants. The overall availability of each chemical may vary from time to time in a plant depending on its chemical composition. Represented most simply as the amount of the ingested material not recoverable in the feces. In soil it is the proportion of the content that is eluted by a weak acid.

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Common misspelling(s) of available

  • availiable
  • avaliable
  • avalable

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - disponibel, til rådighed, tilgængelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
beschikbaar, verkrijgbaar, vrij

Français (French)
adj. - disponible, utilisable, à la disposition de, possible, libre, (US) valable, valide (pour)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - verfügbar, erhältlich, lieferbar, einsatzfähig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - διαθέσιμος, πρόσφορος, πρόχειρος, προσιτός

Italiano (Italian)
libero, disponibile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - disponível, utilizável

Русский (Russian)
доступный, свободный, имеющийся в наличии, пригодный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - vacante, en existencia, disponible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - tillgänglig, disponibel, giltig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
有空的, 有用的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有空的, 有用的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 이용할 수 있는, 효력이 있는, 유리한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 利用できる, 手に入る, 有効な, 手があいている

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) موجود, متاح, متوفر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮זמין, ניתן להשיגו, בר-השגה, שימושי, פנוי, בר-תוקף, לא-עסוק‬


 
 
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