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wearable

wearable

1 4.3
A thing you put on your body, often clothes or small electronic devices
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛrəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dispositivo wearable
  • Fitness trackers are popular wearables that help people monitor their health.
  • fitness wearables
  • wearables and medical devices
  • wearables market

And we're leaning more towards the side of some sort of wrist wearable or something that she could hold.

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Examples

  • And this is an infrared transceiver that allows wearables to communicate with each other.

  • I've had so many wearable tech type things on this wrist.

  • So my approach was to build some wearable devices.

  • But the other thing is a wearable copy of your own face.

  • If you have only the wearable, you get the next best results.

    Lex Fridman

  • Another area is to go for a wearable device for people with normal sight.

  • So should you invest in a Beacon wearable controller?

  • So we're building a custom wearable VR device.

  • It's this thing here, it's the Ampy move wearable motion charger.

  • According to Gizmodo, an accelerometer is one of a couple of different sensors inside the disc, but Misfit Wearable's CEO Sonny Vu kept mum on what else is inside.

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Synonyms

clothing
vswearable
530 1.0

Things you wear to cover your body

also covers electronic devices designed to be worn on the body
article of clothing
vswearable
11 1.3

A single item you wear, like a shirt or dress

can also mean small electronic items attached to garments for use
habiliment
vswearable
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Special clothes worn for a certain role or ceremony

is broader and includes electronic gear built into garments for use
wearing apparel
vswearable
1 2.8

Clothes people put on to cover their body

includes garments and devices built into them for practical use
vesture
vswearable
  • Literature
1 9.9

Clothes worn for ceremony or special events

is broader, also including modern devices integrated into garments for function

Surface Forms

wearable singular
wearables plural

Morphology

wearable = wearable (transparent) = wear + able

The noun is formed by conversion from the adjective 'wearable', whose meaning is already transparently built from 'wear' + '-able'.

Etymology

Wearable comes from the simple verb wear ('to put on') and the ending -able ('can be'). So a wearable is something 'that can be worn' on the body, like a smart watch or a health-tracking jacket.