populatable

English

Etymology

populate +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpˌjʊu.leɪt.əbəl/

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Adjective

populatable (not comparable)

1. (computing) Able to be populated
   • 1994, Ramez Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim, Entity-relationship Approach, ER '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach‎^[1], →ISBN, page 239:

     In particular, it is checked whether all parts of the conceptual scheme are populatable at all, whether any information is lost…

   • 2001, Terry Halpin, Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Local Design‎^[2], →ISBN, page 255:

     Since Man and Woman are exclusive, and an object type must be populatable, no object type can be a subtype of both…

   • 2005, R. Meersman, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops‎^[3], →ISBN, page 736:

     These schemata are the best populatable schemata among schemata with the same number of predicators.