uncontrollable
We need to know more about the controllable risk factors.
Asthma, although it causes many problems, is a highly controllable condition provided people take their medication.
Some researchers believe the environment in the womb is just as important as genes and potentially more controllable.
They are introducing measures to keep cars at a more controllable speed.
The building is divided into six zones, each individually controllable by thermostat.
She was relieved to be back in a familiar and controllable environment.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Power to control
absolute authority
ahold
all's well that ends wellidiom
all-powerful
ascendancy
authoritarianism
discretionary
girl power
grip
he who pays the piper calls the tune.idiom
hegemonic
implant
power grab
power structure
power struggle
power vacuum
power-sharing
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom
the upper hand
yoke

Examples of controllable

controllable
Similarly, resonators with controllable feedback work on the frequency domain of the sound, bringing its frequency content to the foreground of one's attention.
In law, actual borderline cases are controllable side effects.
The term inspectability covers a variety of aspects since it describes, how observable, accessible and controllable the model-based simulation is for the trainee.
There is change over time, and the process is not directly controllable by officials.
The reason is that these canons or rules, if they exist, are constrained by something not directly controllable by officials as a group.
Ideally the manipulator should be controllable through the wheelchair joystick.
Learning involves some fixed costs but it may be partly controllable by the economy.
Such a flow should be steady, stable and controllable.
Using these data for learning, the neuro-controller decided appropriate motor control action (output signal) to drive the controllable states of the robot.
Figure 3 shows the arrangement of a single degree of freedom controllable impedance element.
One compact, very controllable type of communication is telling a story to a nave interlocutor.
The benefits to many health organisations is obvious with the possibility of cutting waiting times for operations and a more controllable financial budget.
The intermediate host snail at first appeared to be confined to this single, and potentially controllable, water system.
In addition, the directions of the controllable contact force are limited by the kinematics of the joints connected to the contact link.
This fact permits us to investigate into the relationship between the controllable asymmetry of an initial target geometry and the neutron yield.
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