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decidable.

Adjective
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MEANING

Capable of a definite yes-or-no answer determined by a suitable procedure.

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  • decidable problem
  • decidable question

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The problem was decidable within the specified formal system.
A decidable question could still require substantial computation.

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decidable

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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.

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