populatable

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English

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Etymology

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From populate +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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

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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.