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Habitability   Listen
noun
Habitability  n.  Habitableness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Habitability" Quotes from Famous Books



... keeping with the simple kindliness of the great town whose homelikeness arises from its immense habitability. This always strikes the New-Yorker, whether native or adoptive, if he be a thoughtful New- Yorker, and goes about the different regions of the ampler metropolis with an abiding sense of the restricted spaces where man may peacefully dwell, or ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells

... diminutive height of the intervening mountains, in connection with the fact that there is a constant wind-current from the lower Pacific (generally speaking, from the west of longitude 74 W.), depends the habitability of this large island, the Island of Hili-li (here represented in about longitude 75 E.), and many other islands which stretch out in the same direction from this enormous active surface-crater. I say that upon such conditions depends the habitability of these islands, and so I ...
— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake

... mother was the most imperative. She was returning from California and sent some inquiries as to the habitability of her ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

... the Rifle movement drove away those vultures, Louis Napoleon's hungry colonels, from our unprotected shores. There are also in the poem some curious thoughts about the Arctic Circle, its magnetic heat, and possible habitability; also others about thought-reading and the like; all this being long in advance of the age, for that ode was published by Bosworth in 1852. Also, I anticipated then ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... upon the solid interior, it split in fissures radiating from points of weakness, such, for instance, as the craterlets. And he goes on to suggest that the two tiny Martian satellites, with which we shall deal next, are the last survivors of his hypothetical swarm. Finally, with regard to the habitability of Mars, Dr. Wallace not only denies it, but asserts that ...
— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage



Words linked to "Habitability" :   habitable, fittingness, habitableness, fitness



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