viable : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: viable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viable adj capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are Synonym(s): feasible, executable, practicable, viable, workable capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viable \Vi"a*ble\, a. [F., from vie life, L. vita. See {Vital}.] (Law) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant. Note: Unless he [an infant] is born viable, he acquires no rights, and can not transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never been born. --Bouvier.