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Definition of tractable in English: tractableadjective ˈtraktəb(ə)lˈtræktəb(ə)l 1(of a person) easy to control or influence. she has always been tractable and obedient, even as a child Example sentencesExamples - The drugging of prisoners for other than medical purposes - i.e., to sedate them so they would be more tractable in custody - was a breach of international human rights standards.
- They wanted as well a federal government that would keep the Indians tractable and confined to reservations away from white settlements.
- Calves born to tame mothers living with humans would either prove tractable and so be kept to breed, or intractable and so escape or be eaten, outcomes that are genetically equivalent.
- Humans would have selected (and been more able to control) animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
- The enemy is more tractable if he is confused about the source of the attack and thinks it may be coming from his next-door neighbor.
- The more tractable and sweet-tempered of these dogs often spent as much time, if not more, with the hunters' families.
- But again, that success was mostly in producing tractable zombies who didn't pose problems for their caretakers or families.
- Elites depend on normative interpretations of cultural forms to promote docile and tractable underlings; non-elites reinterpret the great traditions in order to meet their own social needs.
- And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff.
- It's a surprisingly tractable companion, especially if you let the auto function take the strain of stop-starting in the city.
- In either case, I'm sad about the state of things: I'd like to see more men take up writing; and I'd liked to think that men are more tractable, more teachable than it appears we are.
- Was the medical establishment just trying to keep patients drugged and tractable?
- People are inclined to take advantage of your sympathetic, tractable nature.
- On the contrary, they are among the most tractable of dogs.
- The vast torque on tap makes it so tractable you can just stick it in third gear and drive it like an automatic.
Synonyms controllable, manageable, malleable, governable, yielding, amenable, complaisant, compliant adjustable docile, submissive, obedient, tame, meek, easily handled, biddable, persuadable, persuasible, accommodating, trusting, gullible, dutiful, willing, unassertive, passive, deferential, humble, obsequious, servile, sycophantic - 1.1 (of a situation or problem) easy to deal with.
trying to make the mathematics tractable Example sentencesExamples - A problem can be intractable under one approach and yet fully tractable under another.
- One thing remains true, however: the more we analyze the problems, the more they seem to be tractable, if not now then within the relatively near future.
- While the conditional distributions are not computationally tractable for models of interest, they are amenable to approximation, as we describe below.
- This system is a computationally tractable and biologically grounded model that has previously provided insights into evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscapes.
- Usually, to make the problem tractable, the molecules are assumed to be spherical and the reactive patches are assumed to be circular.
- But problems of consciousness are generally felt to be less tractable than matters of intentionality.
- The first one is tractable and relatively easy.
- And despite limits to the model, analysts continue to use the model because it is intuitive and tractable.
- The method is computationally intensive, but for tractable cases it is the method of choice.
- This problem is no more tractable than that noted above, but some inferences can be made.
- But will the problems involved in solid hydrogen storage be any more tractable and yield to any better solution than the problems with gaseous or liquid storage?
- The pair had to adjust their probabilistic model to make the calculations more tractable.
- To sharpen our thinking, we attempt to make these models computationally tractable, even if we lack credible quantitative estimates of many of the variables and relationships.
- To make the model and analyses tractable, however, various simplifying assumptions concerning the above factors have been adopted in previous estimation methods.
- Now chance in a casino is much more tractable than chance in nature.
- So we were looking for a case that would be tractable.
- It's a neat solution, mathematically tractable.
- While very difficult to retrofit, this is a tractable problem for a ground-up system design.
- But if 90% of what he does is positive, which it is, then that seems like a tractable problem to me.
- A more tractable alternative is to try to measure how much people want things, and then to measure how well life is going by seeing how many of their desires are satisfied.
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin tractabilis, from tractare 'to handle' (see tractate). Definition of tractable in US English: tractableadjectiveˈtraktəb(ə)lˈtræktəb(ə)l 1(of a person) easy to control or influence. tractable dogs that have had some obedience training Example sentencesExamples - Humans would have selected (and been more able to control) animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
- Calves born to tame mothers living with humans would either prove tractable and so be kept to breed, or intractable and so escape or be eaten, outcomes that are genetically equivalent.
- The drugging of prisoners for other than medical purposes - i.e., to sedate them so they would be more tractable in custody - was a breach of international human rights standards.
- People are inclined to take advantage of your sympathetic, tractable nature.
- In either case, I'm sad about the state of things: I'd like to see more men take up writing; and I'd liked to think that men are more tractable, more teachable than it appears we are.
- The vast torque on tap makes it so tractable you can just stick it in third gear and drive it like an automatic.
- Elites depend on normative interpretations of cultural forms to promote docile and tractable underlings; non-elites reinterpret the great traditions in order to meet their own social needs.
- The more tractable and sweet-tempered of these dogs often spent as much time, if not more, with the hunters' families.
- On the contrary, they are among the most tractable of dogs.
- The enemy is more tractable if he is confused about the source of the attack and thinks it may be coming from his next-door neighbor.
- It's a surprisingly tractable companion, especially if you let the auto function take the strain of stop-starting in the city.
- And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff.
- They wanted as well a federal government that would keep the Indians tractable and confined to reservations away from white settlements.
- Was the medical establishment just trying to keep patients drugged and tractable?
- But again, that success was mostly in producing tractable zombies who didn't pose problems for their caretakers or families.
Synonyms controllable, manageable, malleable, governable, yielding, amenable, complaisant, compliant - 1.1 (of a situation or problem) easy to deal with.
trying to make the mathematics tractable Example sentencesExamples - The pair had to adjust their probabilistic model to make the calculations more tractable.
- This system is a computationally tractable and biologically grounded model that has previously provided insights into evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscapes.
- But if 90% of what he does is positive, which it is, then that seems like a tractable problem to me.
- To make the model and analyses tractable, however, various simplifying assumptions concerning the above factors have been adopted in previous estimation methods.
- The first one is tractable and relatively easy.
- The method is computationally intensive, but for tractable cases it is the method of choice.
- This problem is no more tractable than that noted above, but some inferences can be made.
- A problem can be intractable under one approach and yet fully tractable under another.
- But will the problems involved in solid hydrogen storage be any more tractable and yield to any better solution than the problems with gaseous or liquid storage?
- So we were looking for a case that would be tractable.
- It's a neat solution, mathematically tractable.
- And despite limits to the model, analysts continue to use the model because it is intuitive and tractable.
- One thing remains true, however: the more we analyze the problems, the more they seem to be tractable, if not now then within the relatively near future.
- Usually, to make the problem tractable, the molecules are assumed to be spherical and the reactive patches are assumed to be circular.
- While the conditional distributions are not computationally tractable for models of interest, they are amenable to approximation, as we describe below.
- But problems of consciousness are generally felt to be less tractable than matters of intentionality.
- A more tractable alternative is to try to measure how much people want things, and then to measure how well life is going by seeing how many of their desires are satisfied.
- While very difficult to retrofit, this is a tractable problem for a ground-up system design.
- To sharpen our thinking, we attempt to make these models computationally tractable, even if we lack credible quantitative estimates of many of the variables and relationships.
- Now chance in a casino is much more tractable than chance in nature.
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin tractabilis, from tractare ‘to handle’ (see tractate). |