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Tractable vs Trackable - What's the difference?

tractable | trackable |

As adjectives the difference between tractable and trackable

is that tractable is capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable while trackable is able to be tracked, or worthy of being tracked.

tractable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
  • * 1792 , , A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , ch. 13:
    • I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.
  • * 1839 , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 61:
    • Of all the tractable , equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
  • * 1909 , , The Bronze Bell , ch. 18:
    • [T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind.
  • * 2008 , , Shadows Return , ISBN 9780553590081, p. 96:
    • Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable .
  • Capable of being shaped; malleable.
  • * 1866 , P. Le Neve Foster, " Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts , March 2, 1966:
    • I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
  • (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.
  • * 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:
    • At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
  • (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
  • * 1987 , Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics , vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
    • This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.
  • (computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

    • Antonyms

    * intractable

    Related terms

    * tractability * tractableness * tractably

    References

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    trackable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be tracked, or worthy of being tracked.
  • *1867 , Charles Dickens, All the Year Round , v. 17, pg. 496:
  • *:The footsteps were trackable on the grass, but not on it, and were visible on the harrowed ground.
  • *1971 , Wernher von Braun, "Mariner 9 to Mars," Popular Science , November 1971, pg. 64:
  • *:The long flight to Mars and the even longer orbiting time of a precisely trackable spacecraft will enable scientists to refine the accuracy of our data bank on true distances across the solar system, the exact shape of the planet Mars, and possible anomalies in its gravitational field caused by mass concentrations (mascons).
  • *2007 , "Report Faults NASA on Equipment Losses," Bloomberg News'', in ''The New York Times , July 26, 2007:
  • *:Instead of tightening controls, it relaxed them, making $10,000 the minimum value for trackable items, instead of $5,000, the report said.