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tickable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɪkəbəl/

Etymology

From tick + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That can be ticked; capable of being marked with a tick or check mark.
    • tickable boxes in a questionnaire
  2. (not-comparable) Of a bird, located so that it may be travelled to and viewed.
  3. (not-comparable) Of an observation, good enough to ensure correct identification and therefore allow the bird to be added to a list of observed birds.
    • On landing the dark forms of the jungle fowl could be seen scattering across the airfield, but we were moving too fast for me to get a tickable view. 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 109:
  4. (not-comparable) Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.
    • A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block. 2017, Branko Ajzele, Mastering PHP 7, page 143:

Translations (3)

cmn 可打鉤的 /可打钩的 (that can be ticked) · fi täytettävä (that can be ticked) · fi ruksattava (that can be ticked)