tractable

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ === Adjective === tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable) (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed. Synonyms: docile, manageable, governable; see also Thesaurus:docile (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage. Capable of being shaped; malleable. 1866, P. Le Neve Foster, "Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 2, 1966: I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . . (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched. Synonyms: palpable, practicable, feasible, serviceable (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time. ==== Antonyms ==== intractable ==== Related terms ==== tractability tractableness tractably ==== Translations ==== === References === “tractable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tractābilis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəkˈtab.blə] IPA(key): (Valencia) [tɾakˈta.ble] === Adjective === tractable m or f (masculine and feminine plural tractables) tractable Antonym: intractable === Further reading === “tractable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. “tractable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == French == === Adjective === tractable (plural tractables) tractable === Further reading === “tractable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012