programmable

English

Etymology

From program +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈɡɹæməbəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

programmable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being programmed.
   • 2007 November 11, Phil Patton, “Far Out: Studios Imagine Smart Cars for a World Transformed by Robots”, in New York Times‎:

     This enables programmable tensiometry and fluid movement while insuring efficient energy transfer to the in-wheel electrostatic nanomotors.

Derived terms

• EPROM
• erasable programmable logic device
• field-programmable gate array
• microprogrammable
• multiprogrammable
• nonprogrammable
• programmability
• programmable logic array
• programmable logic controller
• programmable matter
• programmable read-only memory
• programmable read only memory
• unprogrammable

Translations

capable of being programmed

Chinese: Mandarin: 可編程 / 可编程 (zh) (kěbiānchéng) Czech: programovatelný Danish: programmerbar Faroese: forritsbærur Finnish: ohjelmoitava (fi) French: programmable (fr) German: programmierbar (de) Hebrew: בר־תכנות Icelandic: forritanlegur Norman: programmabl'ye Norwegian: Bokmål: programmerbar Nynorsk: programmerbar Polish: programowalny (pl) Portuguese: programável (pt) Romanian: programabil (ro) Spanish: programable (es) Swedish: programmerbar Welsh: rhaglenadwy

See also

• timer

Noun

programmable (plural programmables)

1. A calculator that allows the user to write programs.
   • 1974, The Michigan Technic, volumes 93-95, page 33:

     Most of the important decision-making functions found on computers are available on TI programmables: Looping. Branching. Flags. Sub-routines. Yet there's no special language to learn.

Translations

calculator that allows the user to write programs

German: programmierbarer Taschenrechner m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ɡʁa.mabl/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

programmable (plural programmables)

1. programmable

Further reading

• “programmable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.