brittle
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Is brittle a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of brittle?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
2. (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
3. (informal, proscribed, of diabetes) Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.informalproscribed
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.broadlyuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become brittle.Examples: "The project is based on a similar project, the Class project, which was started by the University of Cornell several years ago under the leadership of Stuart Lynn to preserve brittling old books."; "Her heart fluttered, then stilled when May snapped the image away and her voice brittled."intransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To gut.Examples: "Not being versed in the terms of English venery, he asked Abbot Ulfketyl what brittling of a deer might mean; and being informed that it was that operation on the carcass of a stag which his countrymen called eventrer, and Highland gillies now “gralloching”[.]"obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary