Word Meanings - DETACHABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That can be detached.

Related words: (words related to DETACHABLE)

• DETACHED
  Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
• DETACHMENT
  1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
• DETACH
  1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party. 2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially
• DETACHABLE
  That can be detached.
• SEMIDETACHED
  Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall.