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Meaning of "tractable" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRACTABLE

From Latin tractābilis, from tractāre to manage, from trahere to draw.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRACTABLE

tractable  [ˈtræktəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRACTABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tractable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TRACTABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tractable in the English dictionary

The definition of tractable in the dictionary is easily controlled or persuaded. Other definition of tractable is readily worked; malleable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRACTABLE


abstractable
æbˈstræktəbəl
actable
ˈæktəbəl
collectable
kəˈlɛktəbəl
compactible
kəmˈpæktəbəl
contactable
kɒnˈtæktəbəl
delectable
dɪˈlɛktəbəl
distractible
dɪsˈtræktəbəl
exactable
ɪɡˈzæktəbəl
extractable
ɪkˈstræktəbəl
intractable
ɪnˈtræktəbəl
predictable
prɪˈdɪktəbəl
protractible
prəˈtræktəbəl
refractable
rɪˈfræktəbəl
respectable
rɪˈspɛktəbəl
retractable
rɪˈtræktəbəl
retractible
rɪˈtræktəbəl
selectable
sɪˈlɛktəbəl
unactable
ʌnˈæktəbəl
unpredictable
ˌʌnprɪˈdɪktəbəl
untractable
ʌnˈtræktəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRACTABLE

tract
tract house
tractability
tractableness
tractably
tractarian
Tractarianism
tractate
tractator
tractile
tractility
traction
traction control
traction engine
traction load
tractional
tractive
tractive force
tractor
tractor drive

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRACTABLE

able
acceptable
accountable
adjustable
charitable
comfortable
inevitable
notable
on the table
palatable
portable
printable
profitable
stable
suitable
table
timetable
uncomfortable
unforgettable
unstable
vegetable

Synonyms and antonyms of tractable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRACTABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tractable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tractable

Translation of «tractable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRACTABLE

Find out the translation of tractable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tractable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tractable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

听话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tratable
570 millions of speakers

English

tractable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विनयशील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لين العريكة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сговорчивым
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tratável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সহজে টানা যায় এমন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

docile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boleh dikendalikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fügsam
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

扱いやすい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다루기 쉬운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tractable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dể làm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழகக்கூடிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कष्टदायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uysal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trattabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tractable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

згідливим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

usor de manuit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τιθασεύσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

soepel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tractable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medgjørlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tractable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRACTABLE»

The term «tractable» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.792 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRACTABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tractable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACTABLE»

Discover the use of tractable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tractable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analytically Tractable Stochastic Stock Price Models
The present volume is addressed to researchers and graduate students working in the area of financial mathematics, analysis, or probability theory.
Archil Gulisashvili, 2012
2
Tractable Models of Solid Mechanics: Formulation, Analysis ...
This book describes significant tractable models used in solid mechanics - classical models used in modern mechanics as well as new ones.
Oleg V. Gendelman, Leonid I. Manevitch, 2011
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Construction and Application of Computationally Tractable ...
This work shows how well defined classical limits of these expressions can be obtained, and unlike the formal quantum mechanical expressions, the derived expressions comprise a computationally tractable theory.
Christine L. Neipert, 2007
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Tractable Reasoning in Aritificial Intelligence
This book is concerned with computational aspects of the logical approach to AI. The focus is on two strategies for achieving computational tractability in knowledge representation and reasoning by language restriction and approximation.
Marco Cadoli, 1995
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Stochastic Networks: Tractable Approaches for Identifying ...
Daniel Reich. is necessary to compare lower bounds on one set of edges with upper bounds on another set of edges. Finding which sets to compare is why this problem is NP-hard. Karasan et al. (2001) use network layers to extract the edge  ...
Daniel Reich, 2009
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Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine
Tractable was certainly one of the strangest attack formations anyone ever dreamed up and without a hope of succeeding as planned. — Brig. Harry Foster He formed deep, massive columns, and put them in motion toward the point of attack.
Roman Johann Jarymowycz, 2001
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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2003: ...
4.3 Novel Classes of Tractable CSPs In this section we will show that when the set of allowed permutations, G, has size 2, the G-approximation problem for any Γ is tractable for the entire set of binary relations. We will use this technique to ...
Francesca Rossi, 2003
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A Flexible and Computationally Tractable Model for Patterns ...
I present a statistical model for patterns of genetic variation in samples of unrelated individuals from natural populations.
Paul A. Scheet, 2006
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IJCAI-97: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint ...
Tractable Cover Compilations* Yacine Boufkhad1, Eric Gregoire2, Pierre Marquis2, Bertrand Mazure2, Lakhdar Sa'is2'3 1 LIP6 2 CRIL 3 IUT de Lens Universite Paris 6 Universite d'Artois 4, place Jussieu Rue de l'Universite, S.P. 16 F-75252 ...
Martha E. Pollack, 1997
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The Complexity of Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems
6.2. Tractable. Languages. We start with a simple tractable language characterised by a unary multimorphism. Example 6.1 (c-validity) Given a fixed c ∈ D, we say that language Γ is c-valid if for all φ ∈ Γ, φ(c,...,c) ≤ φ(x) holds for all x ∈ Dm, ...
Stanislav Živný, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRACTABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tractable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Death by Design? Spatial models show that natural selection favors …
However, while that approximation makes it mathematically tractable to calculate the outcome of the model, it actually winds up giving you the wrong result.". «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Entrepreneurs have unique insights that make grand problems …
But great entrepreneurs and researchers have unique insights that make grand problems appear more tractable or recast old problems in an entirely new light. «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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'Old-age protein' may cause memory loss
“And that's so much easier and more tractable in terms of thinking of human patients.” The study is a solid confirmation of previous papers that showed B2M's ... «Science Now, Jul 15»
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Tractable $1.90 million Financing. Alexandre Dalyac Filed Jun 29 …
Tractable Inc., Corporation just filed form D about $1.90 million equity financing. This is a new filing. Tractable was able to finance itself with $1.82 million. That is ... «OctaFinance.com, Jun 15»
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Next Up: Nuclear Talks With North Korea?
... upon the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. Obama administration officials hoped Kim Jong Un might turn out to be more tractable than his forebears. He didn't. «Forbes, Jun 15»
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Reign Fail to Break Through Red Stars in Scoreless Draw
Next weekend they face the more tractable problem of Sky Blue FC, who are bottom of the table with only one win all season. That will be the last game before a ... «Sounder At Heart, May 15»
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British Army completes exercise to validate armour deployability
With the UK military renewing its focus on global contingency operations capability in the wake of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, Exercise 'Tractable' was the ... «IHS Jane's 360, Mar 15»
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These incredible pictures of attack choppers and tanks were taken in …
The troops are taking part in Exercise Tractable in Salisbury, a three-week major exercise involving hundreds of vehicles and more than 1,500 troops. «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
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Bacteria Network for Food: Bacteria Connect to Each Other and …
Using bacterial communities as experimentally tractable model systems will help to explain why so many organisms have developed a cooperative lifestyle in ... «Scicasts, Feb 15»
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Increase in Army activity around Salisbury Plain expected in March
Exercise Tractable will be a key test of the deployability of 3rd (United Kingdom) Division's 'Lead Armoured Task Force', comprising mainly of units from 12th ... «Wiltshire Times, Feb 15»

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