viable, discontinuity, possible, workable, practicable, feasible,

Virgin Australia permanently cancels Hong Kong routes amid ...

 Virgin Australia has emerged as the first international airline to completely withdraw all its services between Australia and Hong Kong amid the coronavirus outbreak, citing that the route was no longer commercially viable.

「維珍澳洲航空 （Virgin Australia Airlines）今丟下震撼彈，宣布終止飛往香港的航線，認為香港受反送中運動及中國武漢肺炎疫情影響，對他們來說，不再具有商業可行性。」

Working Paper: Recognizing the New—A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Makinghttp://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5806.html
Firms must discover and pursue viable strategic positions particularly during times of change, in the early phases of a new industry, or after a discontinuity of some sort, say professor Giovanni Gavetti and colleague Massimo Warglien. At these times, the context of choice is typically hard to interpret. So how do people make intelligent strategic choices in these settings?

These statistics are based on clinical findings in viable pregnancies.



Searching is a pain, but "reorganizing" your archive is a fate worse than death, so you've gamely stuck to your system--until now, when Google Email Uploader for Mac presented a viable alternative.

Kindle Catches Fire

After more than a year of missteps by Apple's tablet rivals, at least one viable competitor, Amazon's Kindle Fire, appears to have surfaced for the popular iPad.

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━━ n. 植民地; ((集合的)) 植民（団）; （同一職業・宗教・人種などの）集団（居住地）, …人街 (the Japanese ～ 日本人街）; （罪人などの）隔離区域; （the Colonies） 米国建国当時の13州 （Thirteen Colonies）; 旧大英帝国領; 【生物】群体; 【生物】（細胞）集落.

Wikipedia article "Colony-forming unit".

In microbiology, colony-forming unit (CFU) is a measure of viable bacterial numbers. Unlike in direct microscopic counts where all cells, dead and living, are counted, CFU measures viable cells. By convenience the results are given as , colony-forming units per milliliter.

discontinuous 
adjective FORMAL
with breaks, or stopping and starting again:
a discontinuous process

discontinuity
Peter Drucker coined the term in his 1966 book The Age of Discontinuity,...


viable 
adjective
1 able to work as intended or able to succeed:
In order to make the company viable, it will unfortunately be necessary to reduce staffing levels.
Solar power is now a viable alternative to oil-fired water heaters.

I am afraid your plan is not commercially/economically/financially/politically viable.

2 SPECIALIZED
able to continue to exist as or develop into a living being:
There is a continuing debate about the age at which a human fetus can be considered viable.


Viable implies having the capacity for continuing effectiveness or success: “How viable are the ancient legends as vehicles for modern literary themes?” (Richard Kain). (George Eliot).


viability
noun [U]
Rising costs are threatening the viability of many businesses.
SPECIALIZED
As the world population of Hawaiian geese has shrunk to very small numbers, the bird's continuing viability is in doubt.

SYNONYMS possible, workable, practicable, feasible, viable. These adjectives mean capable of occurring or being done.
Possible indicates that something may happen, exist, be true, or be realizable: “I made out a list of questions and possible answers” (Mary Roberts Rinehart). 

Workable is used of something that can be put into effective operation: If the scheme is workable, how will you implement it?

Something that is practicable is capable of being effected, done, or put into practice: “As soon as it was practicable, he would conclude his business”

Feasible refers to what can be accomplished, brought about, or carried out: Making cars by hand is possible but not economically feasible.


feasible
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL1 able to be made, done or achieved:
With the extra resources, the scheme now seems feasible.
[+ to infinitive] It may be feasible to clone human beings, but is it ethical?

2 possible or reasonable:
It's quite feasible (that) we'll get the money.


feasibly 
adverb SLIGHTLY FORMAL

feasibility 
noun [U]whether something is feasible:
We're looking at the feasibility of building a shopping centre there
.to carry out/conduct a feasibility study

Arts Minister Peter Garrett said the money would be spent on translation services, tests for children and a feasibility study for a national centre for Aboriginal languages.

藝術部長賈瑞特表示，這筆經費將用於翻譯服務，為兒童進行測驗，並研究成立國家原住民語言中心的計畫是否可行





discontinuity 
noun [C or U] FORMAL