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backspaceable

adj

Etymology

From backspace + -able.

  1. derived from *(s)peh₂-✻
  2. derived from spatium
  3. derived from space
  4. inherited from space
  5. compounded as backspace — “back + space”
  6. suffixed as backspaceable — “backspace + able”

Definitions

  1. Supporting a backspace function.

    • The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.
    • Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backspaceable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA