Etymology

From roll +‎ -abilityCategory:English terms suffixed with -ability#ROLLABILITY.

Noun

rollability (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#ROLLABILITYCategory:English nouns#ROLLABILITYCategory:English uncountable nouns#ROLLABILITYCategory:English uncountable nouns#ROLLABILITYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLABILITYCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLABILITYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ROLLABILITY

1. The quality of being rollable.
   • 1963 September, “The new Tyne and Healey Mills yards of the North Eastern”, in Modern Railways, page 164:

     Like Tees, Tyne and Healey Mills are semi-automatic in operation, in that the hump operator personally controls the secondary retarders, on which he selects one of six leaving speeds, based on his judgment of a cut's rollability and speed and the degree of siding occupation on its destined route.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ROLLABILITY

References

• “rollability”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.