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waitable

waitable adjective: implementing a wait/notify functionality.

Adjective

waitable (comparative more waitable, superlative most waitable)

  1. Implementing a wait/notify functionality.
    • This function cancels a waitable timer operation. The timer remains in its current state and will not restart until explicitly started […]1997, Daniel Appleman, Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 programmer's guide to the Win32 API, Ziff-Davis Press, →ISBN, page 1160
    • In a [certain] Win32 application, you need to process messages, but you also want to wait for kernel-level waitable objects, and coordinate several activities.2005, Alex Martelli et al., Python Cookbook, Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 381
  2. Worth waiting, reasonable to wait.
    • […] ---2 months can change a lot--- bringing up '2 years' is ridiculous. 2 months is waitable.2000 September 17, PHill, “Re: Abit KG7 worth the wait?”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (Usenet)
  3. Available or accessible within a period of time that is reasonable to wait.
    • […] can someone tell me how busy tomorrowland has been is it waitable or does it like take 3 hrs like some were saying to get on RR […]1998 July 6, CapnHook, “HELP!!!!!!!!!!”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet)

Forms of waitable

comparativemore waitable
superlativemost waitable

Origin of waitable

From wait + -able.

Questions about waitable

What does waitable mean?
Waitable means implementing a wait/notify functionality.
What part of speech is waitable?
Waitable is an adjective.

Words near waitable in the dictionary

  1. wait-free
  2. wait-list
  3. wait-listed
  4. wait-listing
  5. wait-lists
  6. waitable
  7. Waitaha penguin
  8. Waitaha penguins
  9. Waitaki
  10. Waitakian
  11. waitaminute

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