Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being reached; within reach.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being within reach.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Within easy reach; accessible
  • adjective mathematics (of a node) That may be reached from another node in a graph by passing along one or more lines

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective easily approached

Etymologies

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reach +‎ -able

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Examples

  • I prefer the term reachable in the context of EE though simply because the common distinction between first set and follow set is not so important in Trail.

    Planet Python 2009

  • We give an explanation of the term reachable in the context of Trail NFAs.

    Planet Python 2009

  • His prize in reachable site, he outstretches his arm to grab the little blue mouse.

    Archive 2008-07-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • His prize in reachable site, he outstretches his arm to grab the little blue mouse.

    The Invention of Hugo Cabret (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • (Later I was to think also of widely separated islands of workers, each island reachable from the others only by a slow boat.)

    Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography 2007

  • Inside an Accuracy Center (reachable from the thin DragonBar toolbar that shows up on screen), you can add words to your vocabulary, increase e-mail accuracy and go through other training.

    Dragon improves speech-recognition software 2007

  • The two pieces do also appear on separate pages, which are reachable from the table of contents.

    About this Hypertext and the Contributors 1997

  • Until his 4-iron from the right fairway bunker came up short and found the water at No. 18, Stricker had been two under through the minefield that begins with the 260-yard, par-3 15th hole - which one pro jokingly called a "reachable par-3" earlier this week.

    NYT > Home Page By LARRY DORMAN 2011

  • Until his 4-iron from the right fairway bunker came up short and found the water at No. 18, Stricker had been two under through the minefield that begins with the 260-yard, par-3 15th hole - which one pro jokingly called a "reachable par-3" earlier this week.

    NYT > Home Page By LARRY DORMAN 2011

  • And one of last year's lessons was that even Web destinations that have their main domain name reachable over IPv6 typically load page elements such as images and scripts from secondary sub- domains that are IPv4-only, making the experience for users who only have IPv6 and no IPv4 pretty miserable.

    Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2012

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