targetable

adjective

tar·​get·​able ˈtär-gə-tə-bəl 

: capable of being aimed at a target

missiles with targetable warheads

Examples of targetable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are up to 24 missiles on each Ohio class and 16 missiles on each Vanguard class, with each missile carrying multiple, independently targetable nuclear warheads. —David Szondy, New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025

Many are equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to strike several targets simultaneously. —Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024

Non-Endemic Advertising This movement toward identifiable, targetable audiences has the power to attract product and service providers beyond the retailer’s own inventory. —Hai Mag, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

During the second half of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union chose to deploy multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, missiles loaded with several nuclear warheads. —Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

Anonymized usage data and other first-party signals can be fed into contextual solutions to improve the engine’s capabilities, extrapolating targetable audiences from a wealth of insights. —Evgeny Popov, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

Some of these ICBMs carried large, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, which could fire a cluster of warheads at more than one target. —Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

For example, most Americans have an Amazon Prime account, providing a large pool of targetable shoppers for brands to reach through retail media. —Gary Drenik, Forbes, 4 May 2023

Patients without targetable mutations like EGFR or ALK in non-small cell lung cancer have faced long odds for a long time. —Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above