demountable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective[edit]
demountable (comparative more demountable, superlative most demountable)
- Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled.
- Synonyms: dismantlable, dismantleable
- (computing, of a hard drive, dated) Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.
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Translations[edit]
able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled
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Noun[edit]
demountable (plural demountables)
- (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.
- 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 4: