different between imputable vs imputation

English

Etymology

impute +? -able

Adjective

imputable

1. That may be imputed

   Synonyms: chargeable, ascribable, attributable, referable
2. (law) Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.

Related terms

Translations

References

• imputable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imputable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From imputer +? -able

Adjective

imputable (plural imputables)

1. imputable, attributable, ascribable, chargeable

Further reading

• “imputable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

imputable (plural imputables)

1. attributable; imputable

English

Etymology

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.pj??te?.??n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace.

6. (statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. (genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. (game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.

Related terms

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputational
• impute
• reimputation

Translations

References

• imputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py.ta.sj??/

Noun

imputation f (plural imputations)

1. imputation