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What does friable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word friable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  2. (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
  3. (poison) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
  4. (mathematics) smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
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And it also gave me a chance to enthuse about how lucky I am to have such friable soil.
On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences.
In portal hypertensive gastropathy, the mucosa is friable and bleeding occurs when the ectatic vessels rupture and manifest as mucosal oozing.
Like carrots, swedes and turnips prefer to be grown in well-drained and friable soil that hasn't been freshly manured.
Still, as a longtime computer geek, I've seen how brittle, complex and friable computer systems can be.
Molasse is a dialect word used by French-speaking farmers in western Switzerland to describe soft, friable sandstones.

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