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tractable

/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ · adjective

Meaning

  1. (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
  2. (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage
  3. Capable of being shaped; malleable.
  4. Capable of being handled or touched.
  5. Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
  6. Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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