Synonyms for computable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuhm-pyoot
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpyut


Définition of computable

Origin :
  • 1630s, from French computer, from Latin computare "to count, sum up, reckon together," from com- "with" (see com-) + putare "to reckon," originally "to prune" (see pave). Related: Computed; computing.
  • adj calculable
Example sentences :
  • It likes big, unmistakable, knock-down effects; it likes to get its money back in palpable, computable change.
  • Extract from : « Picture and Text » by Henry James
  • Here is an incident I never can forget;—dating twelve or thirteen years ago (as is computable), middle of July, 1732.
  • Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • C'est assez vous dire that I can make no plan for any social adventure within any computable time.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II » by Henry James
  • The sum was not computable by any rule known to arithmetic, mathematics, or any cognate "science of numbers."
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine » by Various

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