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pingable

pingable adjective: that can be pinged; responsive to pings.

Adjective

pingable (not comparable)

  1. That can be pinged; responsive to pings.
    • Not only were the hop counts believable, but all the source IPs appeared to be alive and pingable...2002, Stephen Northcutt, Judy Novak, Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook
    • If the point-to-point addresses are not in the iBGP, the customer point-to-point link will not be pingable, which could be an unacceptable situation...2002, Barry Raveendran Greene, Philip Smith, Cisco ISP Essentials

Origin of pingable

From ping + -able.

Questions about pingable

What does pingable mean?
Pingable means that can be pinged; responsive to pings.
What part of speech is pingable?
Pingable is an adjective.

Words near pingable in the dictionary

  1. ping-ponged
  2. ping-ponging
  3. ping-pongist
  4. ping-pongists
  5. ping-pongs
  6. pingable
  7. Pingad
  8. Pingala
  9. Pingali
  10. pingas
  11. pingases

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