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unconquerable

adjective

  1. not capable of being conquered
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkɒŋkəɹəbəl/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English conquerable English unconquerable From un- + conquerable.

  1. Not conquerable; indomitable.

    Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man.

    In computing, the unconquerable trilemma is embodied in the well-known CAP theorem for distributed systems, also called Brewer’s CAP theorem. This states that any distributed database can only attain two of three guarantees: consistency, availability and partition tolerance.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English conquerable English unconquerable From un- + conquerable.

  1. Someone or something that cannot be conquered.
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