tickable

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English

Etymology

From tick +‎ -able.

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Adjective

tickable (not comparable)

  1. That can be ticked; capable of being marked with a tick or check mark.
    tickable boxes in a questionnaire
  2. (birdwatching) Of a bird, located so that it may be travelled to and viewed.
  3. (birdwatching) Of an observation, good enough to ensure correct identification and therefore allow the bird to be added to a list of observed birds.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 109:
      On landing the dark forms of the jungle fowl could be seen scattering across the airfield, but we were moving too fast for me to get a tickable view.
  4. (programming, PHP) Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.
    • 2017, Branko Ajzele, Mastering PHP 7, page 143:
      A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block.

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