constructible
adjEtymology From construct + -ible.
Of a land, suitable or allowable for constructing a building on.
Of a building or other thing, capable of being constructed.
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Of a regular polygon That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
Mathematics, Sciences Of a complex number Such that the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
Algebraic geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Admitting description as a finite union of locally closed (with respect to the Zariski topology) sets.
Of a subset of the spectrum of a noetherian ring
- Synonyms
- buildable
- Antonyms
- inconstructible, destructible
- Derived terms
- nonconstructible, time-constructible function, unconstructible