Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or process of being tractable; especially, docility; sub-missiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
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- noun The state of being
tractable ordocile ;docility ;tractableness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being easily persuaded
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Examples
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There will be wobbles if uncertainty rises, as it almost certainly will, over the tractability of a housing recovery.
Renovation Work: Building a Case for Home Depot and Lowe's Justin Lahart 2012
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Due to the conceptual incompatibilities between different theories, and simple limitations in the tractability of equations when dealing with systems containing billions of particles, epistemological reductionism is false.
Stuart Kauffman and Reinventing the Sacred Gordon McCabe 2009
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Due to the conceptual incompatibilities between different theories, and simple limitations in the tractability of equations when dealing with systems containing billions of particles, epistemological reductionism is false.
Archive 2009-07-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Given the scope, seriousness and tractability of the problems, not a bad set of responses …. dlw
Global Voices in English » Middle East: Bloggers React to Obama’s Address 2009
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There's a trade off between accuracy and analytical tractability while modeling.
More on Matt Yglesias, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Thus, tractability and attention to detail are rather desirable attributes in a potential client who might reasonably be expected to meet sudden deadlines or make surprise revisions down the line.
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Such tractability could include telling feds where all the money is, including the money set aside for his family.
Madoff Did Not Exactly Take It on the Chin Last Thursday 2009
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What I also love about this car is the pull and tractability of the straight six-cylinder engine, which sings a perfect soundtrack -- be it the 230 hp in the 328i or the 300 hp in the 335i.
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What I also love about this car is the pull and tractability of the straight six-cylinder engine, which sings a perfect soundtrack -- be it the 230 hp in the 328i or the 300 hp in the 335i.
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Vilsack (now billing himself as an education candidate) was perfectly happy to appoint a board of regents whose only concern in managing the state universities seems to have been their tractability with regard to insurance companies.
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November 4, 2008