Capable of being assembled; designed or constructed so that parts can be fitted together to form a complete unit.
From assemble (Old French 'assembler') + -able suffix meaning 'capable of.' The word emerged as manufacturing needed to describe modular construction.
The rise of 'assemblable' reflects the Industrial Revolution—as factories began mass-producing interchangeable parts, a new vocabulary emerged to describe what IKEA and modern manufacturing now take for granted.
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