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The quality of being tractable — that is, of being easy to control, handle, or work with. You use it about people (a class, a worker, a horse) when they do what is asked without a fight, and about problems, materials, or situations when they can be dealt with rather than fought. It is a formal, written word — reports, academic papers, technical writing. In everyday speech nobody says it; a student will see it in reading, almost never need to say it. Two things worth knowing. First, said of a person it can sound cool or even , as if the person is being judged for how easily they can be managed. Second, in mathematics and computing it has a sharper meaning: a problem is 'tractable' if it can actually be solved in reasonable time, so tractability there is about whether the maths is workable at all, not about anyone's temper. The opposite is 'intractability', which you will honestly meet more often — intractable problems, intractable pain, intractable conflict.
易處理性、易控制性;(數學/資訊)可解性、可處理性
組成tractable (able to be handled) + -ity (the quality of being that). Behind it is Latin tractabilis 'able to be touched or handled', from tractō 'handle, manage', itself from trahō 'draw, pull'.
同家族的字
- tractablethe adjective this noun is built on
- intractablethe opposite — not able to be handled
- tractorsame Latin trahō 'pull' — a machine that pulls
- attractLatin ad- 'to' + trahō 'pull' — to pull toward
- extractLatin ex- 'out' + trahō 'pull' — to pull out
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tractabilitynoun
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The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
- At the expense of some realism, these simplifying assumptions afford a great deal of tractability, which allows us to make clear statements about optimal policy.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。