Usually means: Breaks or shatters easily; fragile.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word frangible:

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  1. frangible: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. frangible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frangible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frangible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Frangible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Frangible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. frangible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. frangible: Rhymezone
  9. Frangible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. frangible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. frangible: Free Dictionary
  12. frangible: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. frangible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. frangible: Dictionary/thesaurus
  15. frangible: Vocabulary.com
  16. frangible: Wordnik
  17. frangible: Wiktionary
  18. frangible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  19. frangible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  20. frangible: Infoplease Dictionary
  21. Frangible, frangible: Dictionary.com
  22. frangible: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frangible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frangible: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frangible, frangible: A Word A Day

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (frangible)

adjective:  Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.
noun:  Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.

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