codablen.
/ˈkəʊdəbl/, U.S. /ˈkoʊdəb(ə)l/ That may be coded (in various senses).
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1939 Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Devel. 4 No. 1. 70 To secure specific codable answers to all questions which lend themselves to such treatment.
2009 Ş. Özçalişkan in J. Guo et al. Crosslinguistic Approaches Psychol. Lang. (2010) xix. 264 Since the main verb is the obligatory core of a predicate, this gives S-language speakers an easily codable linguistic option to convey manner.
Derivatives
ˌcodaˈbility n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > capability of being coded
codability1954
1954 R. W. Brown & E. H. Lenneberg in Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. July 459/1 The variable of codability was measured in five ways.
2002 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. Educ. 23 318 The codability of educational aspects of social structure in the practices of feminist politics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1939- of safe memory
- of sale
- of sane memory
- of season
- of second hand
- of secret
- of self-will
- of selfwill
- of semblety
- of service
- of set purpose
- of shine
- of shipboard
- of short continuance
- of show
- of shreds
- of shreds and patches
- of sib
- of silk
- of similitude
- of sithre
- of small, great, etc, regard
- of some continuance
- of some nature
- of some similitude