单词 | evolvable |
释义 | evolvableadj. Capable of evolving or being evolved. Also: capable of being derived. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > developing > capable of being developed evolvable1805 developable1835 1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2405 Historic faith is evidently evolvible from double-touch. 1854 A. Brown Philos. Physics i. 34 To make infinite wisdom physically evolvable, it necessarily required that energy of execution should be equal to the powers of conception. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 11 Truth..lies..everywhere in these—Not absolutely in a portion, yet Evolvable from the whole. 1888 J. I. Swander in Microcosm (N.Y.) Oct. Setting free that substantial form of force—either light or electricity—evolvable by these respective processes. 1966 Q. Rev. Biol. 41 6/1 We can see a common feature to living systems, be they metabolic reactions or gene-based systems: they are evolvable. 1997 Science 26 Sept. 1931/2 The vision of evolvable hardware builds on a much older one: genetic or evolutionary algorithms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1805 |
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