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programmable
English
Etymology
program +? -able
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??????æm?b?l/
Adjective
programmable (not comparable)
- Capable of being programmed.
Derived terms
- EPROM
Related terms
- programmability
Translations
See also
- timer
Noun
programmable (plural programmables)
- A calculator that allows the user to write programs.
- 1974, The Michigan Technic (volumes 93-95, page 33)
- Most of the important decision-making functions found on computers are available on TI programmables: Looping. Branching. Flags. Sub-routines. Yet there's no special language to learn.
- 1974, The Michigan Technic (volumes 93-95, page 33)
Translations
French
Adjective
programmable (plural programmables)
- programmable
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technosexual
English
Etymology
techno- +? -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.
Adjective
technosexual (not comparable)
- Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
- 1997, Janet Lungstrum, Metropolis and the Technosexual Woman of German Modernity, in Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Katharina von Ankum, editor; Berkley: UC Press), pages 128-144; abstract:
- […] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. […]
- 2007, Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller, Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, page 167:
- It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity.
- 1997, Janet Lungstrum, Metropolis and the Technosexual Woman of German Modernity, in Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Katharina von Ankum, editor; Berkley: UC Press), pages 128-144; abstract:
- Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
Related terms
- technosex
- technosexuality
Noun
technosexual (plural technosexuals)
- Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids. [since 2004]
- 2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, Always the Last to Know, in InfoWorld, issue 12, page 14:
- At this rate, I may give up on women entirely and become a technosexual.
- 2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club (Trafford), page 59:
- LESLIE: Don't forget, I was fucking a machine, not a man.
- GARY: What does that make you then, technosexual?
- 2005, Dennis Hans, National Catholic Reporter, "Plankton's insidious technosexual agenda":
- Plankton isn’t gay; he’s technosexual. His wife, Karen -- the apple of his one and only eye -- is a computer.
- 2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, Always the Last to Know, in InfoWorld, issue 12, page 14:
- (neologism) A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices. [since 2006]
- 2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce):
- Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).
- 2007 May 9, Samantha Brett, Sydney Morning Herald, "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the technosexual?" [1]:
- But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […]
- 2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce):
Translations
technosexual From the web:
- technosexual meaning
- what does technosexual meaning
- what does technosexual
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