Hypertext Webster Gateway: "viable"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
viable
adj 1: capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances
as they are [syn: {feasible}, {practicable}, {workable}]
2: capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable
seeds"; "a viable fetus"
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