I'm not entirely certain why someone would use frangible over fragile but, hey, new word! #wotd

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I'm not entirely certain why someone would use frangible over fragile but, hey, new word! #wotd
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/2015/11/08

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Michael Casey said…
I am now writing this on every order I ship out.
New words are fun!
November 8, 2015 at 11:36 AM
Curtis Edenfield said…
It's used a lot in engineering documents!
November 8, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Kenneth Thompson said…
Yep...that's where I first heard it.
November 8, 2015 at 1:05 PM
Bryce Miller said…
Frangible isn't really the same as fragile.
If you design a fire extinguisher enclosure with the "in case of emergency, break glass" sign, you design it to be frangible. This means it is able to be broken, but doesn't necessarily mean it's "fragile".
If you instead design it out of thin aluminum, maybe you could say it is fragile and gets damaged easy in shipping. However, if that thin aluminum just bends and dents, rather than breaking open like the glass design, that is not frangible.
November 9, 2015 at 10:26 AM
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