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explainable

explainable

7 3.8
Easy to understand
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈspleɪnəbl/
translation icon : explicable
  • Everything in the human genome is explainable without a supernatural element.
  • explainable in terms
  • explainable variance
  • explainable variation

I'm encouraged by the DARPA XAI explainable AI program.

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Examples

  • This is explainable, but it, the information is being kept from you intentionally.

  • So it's impossible for the AI system to be truly fully explainable in the way that we mean.

  • So right away you start getting into how, yes, it's explainable and it's not going to be what you think it is.

  • None of this is explainable in physical terms.

  • Stories come together and finally seem to form a single explainable picture.

    Blog text (16)
  • Although this interaction was unexpected, it is explainable.

    Academic text (2011)
  • There is a great effort that's happening now about explainable AI to understand, to trust and to manage AI.

  • This is completely explainable.

  • This is explainable.

  • The teacher made sure that all the concepts were explainable to the students during the lesson.

Synonyms

understandable
vsexplainable
171 1.6

Clear and easy to see what it means or why someone feels that way

stresses the ability to be explained and formally accounted for
comprehensible
vsexplainable
11 3.7

Easy to understand

stresses that it can be fully accounted for in detail
intelligible
vsexplainable
8 4.4

Easy to hear and understand

highlights that it can additionally be explained and accounted for
definable
vsexplainable
6 3.7

A thing you can describe clearly or show its clear limits

is broader, focusing on explanation and being accounted for
knowable
vsexplainable
4 4.6

Something you can learn or understand

focuses more on being explained and given a clear account
explicable
vsexplainable
2 5.5

Something people can understand because there is a clear reason

is the same idea but presented in more general wording
interpretable
vsexplainable
1 5.7

Able to be understood or explained

focuses more on being made clear and accounted for
describable
vsexplainable
1 2.7

Able to be put into words

is more about being explained and accounted for beyond description
fathomable
vsexplainable
1 4.9

Easy to understand

focuses more on giving an explicit account and reasons
apprehensible
vsexplainable
1 7.5

Most people can understand it easily

stresses that it can be explained and given an account
deducible
vsexplainable
1 6.6

Able to be worked out from the given information

relies more on explicit explanation rather than logical deduction
comprehendible
vsexplainable
3.7

Easy to understand

adds that it can also be explained or accounted for
scrutable
vsexplainable
7.0

Easy to understand

focuses more on being made clear and fully accounted for
decodable
vsexplainable
4.0

Easy to read because words use regular letter sounds

is about being explained or accounted for rather than rule based
figure-outable
vsexplainable
  • Informal
7.7

Someone can understand or solve it if they try

emphasizes that it can be clearly explained and accounted for

Antonyms

19 7.0

Something people cannot understand or find a clear reason for

How Understandable

obvious
1.0
clear
1.0
understandable
171 1.6
explainable
7 3.8
obscure
28 8.2

Surface Forms

explainable positive

Morphology

explainable = explain (transparent) = explain + able

The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'explain' with the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'capable of being'.

Etymology

Explainable comes from ex- 'out' and plain 'clear', so it is like making something 'plain' or clear to others. That is why explainable means 'able to be understood'.