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compilable

compilable adjective: that can be compiled or gathered together into a whole.

Adjective

compilable (not comparable)

  1. That can be compiled or gathered together into a whole.
    • For Class C, the fraternal beneficiary orders, 298 organizations were recorded in Table 30, of which 176 furnished compilable financial statements.1896, House documents - Volume 50; Volume 431, page xi
    • documents, clippings, reports, maps, descriptive material of cities, biographies, photographic views of Detroit, compilable lists on various commercial activities, and telephone directories.1923, Special Libraries - Volume 14, page 23
  2. That can be compiled.
    • The study in [ 8 ] shows that all the linear recursions ( containing single linear recursive rules ) are compilable to n - chain recursions or bounded recursions .1988, Catriel Beeri, Umesh Dayal, J.W. Schmidt, Data and Knowledge Bases, page 67
    • . Nothing in the definition of a slice requires that the set of statements is compilable;2018, Paul C. Jorgensen, Software Testing, page 180

Antonyms of compilable

Origin of compilable

From compile + -able.

Words formed from compilable

Questions about compilable

What does compilable mean?
Compilable means that can be compiled or gathered together into a whole.
What part of speech is compilable?
Compilable is an adjective.

Words near compilable in the dictionary

  1. Comphers
  2. comphet
  3. comphrey
  4. compies
  5. compilability
  6. compilable
  7. compiland
  8. compilands
  9. compilate
  10. compilated
  11. compilates

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