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uncheatable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English cheat Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English uncheatable From un- + cheat + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).
    • Amoz Zahavi^([sic]) argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.³² Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap. 2002, George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 100:
    • We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable. 2005, Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, in Andrew Blyth, editor, EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Birkhäuser, published 2006, →ISBN, page 143: