parsable

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Etymology

From parse +‎ -able.

Adjective

parsable (comparative more parsable, superlative most parsable)

  1. (grammar, computing) Able to be parsed.
    Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.
    • 2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.

Usage notes

Both the spellings parsable and parseable are widely used with similar frequency;[1] the spelling parsable (without the ‘e’) is preferred in formal usage, according to the rule:

“Verbs drop silent final -e except after c and g (e.g. movable but changeable)”

as mentioned in the OED, and used in W3C standards.

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