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swappable en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That can be swapped.
    • The resident data structures of the kernels serve as caches on the swappable databases maintained by the managers. 2001, Per Brinch Hansen, Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing to Distributed Systems, page 451:

Deriveds

unswappable · hot-swappable

Translations (3)

de vertauschbar (that can be swapped) · de austauschbar (that can be swapped) · fr échangeable (that can be swapped)