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tractable
English
Etymology
From Latin tract?bilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tract? (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trah? (“draw”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?æk.t?.b?l/
Adjective
tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)
- (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
- Synonyms: docile, manageable, governable
- (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage
- 1839, Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 61:
- Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
- 1839, Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 61:
- Capable of being shaped; malleable.
- 1866, P. Le Neve Foster, "Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 2, 1966:
- I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
- 1866, P. Le Neve Foster, "Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 2, 1966:
- (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.
- Synonyms: palpable, practicable, feasible, serviceable
- 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:
- At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
- (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
- 1987, Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
- This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.
- 1987, Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
- (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
Antonyms
- intractable
Related terms
- tractability
- tractableness
- tractably
Translations
References
- tractable at OneLook Dictionary Search
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inconstant
English
Alternative forms
- inconstaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French inconstant
Adjective
inconstant (comparative more inconstant, superlative most inconstant)
- Not constant; wavering.
- Unfaithful to a lover.
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From in- +? constant.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.kons?tant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.kuns?tan/
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ant
Adjective
inconstant (masculine and feminine plural inconstants)
- inconstant
- Antonym: constant
Related terms
- inconstància
Further reading
- “inconstant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconstant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inconstant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconstant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From in- +? constant.
Adjective
inconstant (feminine singular inconstante, masculine plural inconstants, feminine plural inconstantes)
- inconstant
Further reading
- “inconstant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French inconstant.
Adjective
inconstant m or n (feminine singular inconstant?, masculine plural inconstan?i, feminine and neuter plural inconstante)
- inconstant
Declension
inconstant From the web:
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