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backspaceable

backspaceable adjective: supporting a backspace function.

Adjective

backspaceable (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Supporting a backspace function.
    • The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.1992, Joseph M. Newcomer, “ASCII”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet)
    • Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.2009, Richard Maine, “Error writing on unit 22”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet)

Origin of backspaceable

From backspace + -able.

Questions about backspaceable

What does backspaceable mean?
Backspaceable means supporting a backspace function.
What part of speech is backspaceable?
Backspaceable is an adjective.

Words near backspaceable in the dictionary

  1. backsource
  2. backsourced
  3. backsources
  4. backsourcing
  5. backspace
  6. backspaceable
  7. backspaced
  8. backspacer
  9. backspacers
  10. backspaces
  11. backspacing

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