Calculable
determinable by calculation; ascertainable:
This map was designed so that distances by road are easily calculable.
that can be counted on; reliable.
Historical Examples
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
The Ghost in the White House Gerald Stanley Lee
Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 Various
The Teacher George Herbert Palmer
Eugenics and Other Evils G. K. Chesterton
The Native Son Inez Haynes Irwin
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) John Ruskin
Anti-Suffrage Essays Various
Why we should read S. P. B. Mais
Behind the Mirrors Clinton W. Gilbert
adjective
that may be computed or estimated
predictable; dependable
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