When can / should we use the word frangible?
Please give some examples of its use in a sentence.
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I know that it is a very specific word, But I would like to know where this word appears: biology, physics, ...
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Please give some examples of its use in a sentence.
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I know that it is a very specific word, But I would like to know where this word appears: biology, physics, ...
Frangible is a very fancy replacement for "breakable". Regardless of the examples you find in dictionaries, the word is virtually unused outside of very technical contexts such as engineering and product specifications. The first hundred hits returned on a Google search on the word yielded:
19 dictionary definitions
26 uses in technical specifications or rules involving "breakaway" safety devices
2 uses as screen names
2 uses for names of videogame entitites
All the rest were references to "frangible ammunition", bullets designed to break apart rather than deforming or ricocheting.
Unless you are an engineer or an avid gun-user, I think you can dismiss this word from your own use. In most ordinary contexts "breakable" will be a more natural term.