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populatable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈpɒpˌjʊu.leɪt.əbəl/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English populate Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English populatable From populate + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Able to be populated
    • In particular, it is checked whether all parts of the conceptual scheme are populatable at all, whether any information is lost… 1994, Ramez Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim, Entity-relationship Approach, ER '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach, →ISBN, page 239:
    • Since Man and Woman are exclusive, and an object type must be populatable, no object type can be a subtype of both… 2001, Terry Halpin, Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Local Design, →ISBN, page 255:
    • These schemata are the best populatable schemata among schemata with the same number of predicators. 2005, R. Meersman, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops, →ISBN, page 736: