Usually means: Able to face and touch.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposable: Merriam-Webster
  2. opposable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opposable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opposable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opposable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opposable, opposable: Wordnik
  7. opposable: Wiktionary
  8. opposable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. opposable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. opposable: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. opposable: Dictionary.com
  12. Opposable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Opposable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. opposable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. opposable: Rhymezone
  16. Opposable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. opposable: FreeDictionary.org
  18. opposable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. opposable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opposable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opposable: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (opposable)

adjective:  Susceptible to being opposed or resisted.
adjective:  Capable of being placed opposite something else.

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