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tailable

tailable adjective: of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.

Adjective

tailable (not comparable)

  1. Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.

Origin of tailable

From tail + -able.

Questions about tailable

What does tailable mean?
Tailable means of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.
What part of speech is tailable?
Tailable is an adjective.

Words near tailable in the dictionary

  1. tail-sheddings
  2. tail-skid
  3. tail-skids
  4. tail-wagger
  5. tail-waggers
  6. tailable
  7. tailache
  8. tailage
  9. tailages
  10. tailard
  11. tailback

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