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peekable

adj

Etymology

From peek + -able.

  1. derived from pepen — “to peep”
  2. inherited from *peken✻
  3. suffixed as peekable — “peek + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being peeked at or into.

    • Her fourteen dollhouses range in sophistication from a child-made primitive (1887) to an electrified manse set on a low table and peekable from all sides.

  2. Of a stream or other sequence

    Of a stream or other sequence: from which the next value can be retrieved without advancing the pointer from its current position.

    • Peekable streams also have an internal record of their current position and can look ahead in the stream for information.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for peekable. 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