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codable

codable

5.8
Able to be written so a computer can read it
  • adjective
  • /ˈkoʊdəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : codificable
  • The software must use a codable format to ensure compatibility with different systems.
  • codable character

Examples

  • Here's the button, and then this is a codable light, so you've got both vibration and light feedback.

  • As long as some other type is Codable, then this struct can be codable.

  • In the 1940s, Paul Revere does not receive enough attention to be a codable character.

    Academic text (1992)
  • So that's another use of Codable is receiving data from people in Jason format.

  • But with codable IT based specs and computer driven equipment, you move to an era of Legos, right?

  • During the two early season practices, a total of 869 codable dyadic interactions occurred between coaches and players.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In the 1950s, Revere emerges as codable in two of the textbooks.

    Academic text (1992)
  • She appears in all six books of the 1940s and 1950s, but as a codable character only in two in the 1940s and one in the 1950s.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Stowe vanishes as a codable character in the 1960s, but all the texts do point to the great influence her novel had on Northern public opinion.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Cohen's Kappa for independent coders identifying codable segments, or considerations, of the transcripts was .75.

    Academic text (1997)

How Codable

codable
  • Specialized
5.8

Surface Forms

codable positive

Morphology

codable = code (transparent) = code + able

Formed from the productive verb 'code' plus the adjectival suffix '-able', yielding the straightforward meaning 'able to be coded' across classification, genetic encoding, and programming senses.

Etymology

Codable comes from code 'a set of instructions or symbols' and -able 'can be'. So codable means you 'can write it in computer code' or 'turn it into a program' for a machine to use.