0 (of an opinion or position) able to be defended successfully or held for a particular period of time:
His theory is no longer tenable in the light of the recent discoveries.
The fellowship is tenable for (= lasts for) three years.
1 reasonable, or possible to achieve or defend:
2 a job that is tenable for a particular period of time, or from a particular date, can be held for that period of time or from that date:
Some of the principal roles of taxonomies are to facilitate human understanding, impart structure on an ontology and promote tenable integration.
This assumes that the relative frequencies of these most common words remain constant over development, which may or may not be a tenable assumption.
Such a hypothesis is, however, not tenable when considering predominantly subtidal organisms.
I think we did the best we could under difficult circumstances to achieve a tenable, if not perfect, consensus.
This possibility becomes less tenable, however, when other experimental evidence is brought to bear.
However, these hypotheses do not seem to be empirically tenable (yet).
Considerable literature shows that only under extremely restrictive conditions is the latter position tenable.
I would claim that none of the movements we have tried to describe were academically tenable except as experiments.
