different between leavable vs leapable

leavable

English

Etymology

leave +? -able

Adjective

leavable (comparative more leavable, superlative most leavable)

  1. Capable of being left, or departed from.
    • 1995, Paul West, The tent of orange mist (page 210)
      They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty []
  2. Capable of being left behind.
    • 2011, Rob Grant, Fat
      Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third.
  3. (mathematics, theory of gambling) Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

References

  • Handbook of Markov Decision Processes. Methods and Applications, ?ISBN, Eugene A. Feinberg

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leapable

English

Etymology

leap +? -able

Adjective

leapable (not comparable)

  1. That can be crossed by leaping
    Is this crevasse really leapable?

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