a. [f. as prec. + -ABLE.] That may be transformed; capable of transformation.
1674. Grew, Mixture, iii. § 1. All Principles are immutable; as we have above proved; and, therefore, not generable, formable, or transformable.
1870. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol., I. vi. § 47 (ed. 2), 117. If the psychical force known as effort were transformable into a constant quantity of physical force.
1875. Poste, Gaius, III. Comm. (ed. 2), 358. An obligation … is always transformable, in the eye of the law, into the payment of a certain sum of money.
1902. J. Larmor, in Encycl. Brit., XXVIII. 166/2. Constituents … transformable into each other by chemical or physical action.
1904. Daily Chron., 28 Oct., 8/5. Justice … is such a transformable quality, that it is somewhat difficult to define it.
Hence Transformability.
1875. Poste, Gaius, III. Comm. (ed. 2), 358. This transformability of all Objects of obligation into money payments.
