calculableadj.
/ˈkalkjʊləb(ə)l/ a. Capable of being calculated; that may be reckoned, measured, or computed.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable
numbrablea1382
numberablea1500
computativea1538
measurable1565
numerable1570
countable1581
accountable1589
computable1610
numerous1638
reckonable1657
summable1718
calculable1742
enumerable1889
scorable1964
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective] > capable of being predicted
prognosticable1646
predictable1820
calculable1865
foretellable1912
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 286 Eclipses..being regular and calculable.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 103 Incapable of producing any regular, continuous, and calculable effect.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) vi. 113 The connexion of physical causes and effects is known and calculable.
1865 Sat. Rev. 25 Mar. 332/2 There is always a calculable risk of a vacancy.
b. Of a person: Such that his action in given circumstances can be reckoned upon and estimated.
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1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 May 2 He is the least consistent, reliable, and calculable of public men.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxvii. 177 He was exactly the man to feel the utmost piquancy in a girl whom he had not found quite calculable.
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adj.1742