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tractable

adj
/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/CA

Etymology

From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).

  1. derived from tractābilis
  2. inherited from tractable

Definitions

  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

    • "Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me."
    • But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore. She found one excuse after another, […]

  2. Easy to deal with or manage.

    • I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.
    • Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
    • [T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind.

  3. Capable of being shaped

    Capable of being shaped; malleable.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Capable of being handled or touched.

    2. Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed…

      Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

      • This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.

    3. Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial…

      Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tractable. 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