programmable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English program

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English programmable

From program + -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈɡɹæməbəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

programmable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being programmed.
   • 2007 November 11, Phil Patton, “Far Out: Studios Imagine Smart Cars for a World Transformed by Robots”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2024:

     This enables programmable tensiometry and fluid movement while insuring efficient energy transfer to the in-wheel electrostatic nanomotors.

Derived terms

• EPROM
• erasable programmable logic device
• field-programmable gate array
• microprogrammable
• multiprogrammable
• nonprogrammable
• programmability
• programmable logic array
• programmable logic controller
• programmable matter
• programmable read-only memory
• programmable read only memory
• unprogrammable

Translations

capable of being programmed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可編程 / 可编程 (zh) (kěbiānchéng)

• Czech: programovatelný
• Danish: programmerbar
• Faroese: forritsbærur
• Finnish: ohjelmoitava (fi)
• French: programmable (fr)
• German: programmierbar (de)
• Hebrew: בר־תכנות
• Icelandic: forritanlegur
• Norman: programmabl'ye
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: programmerbar

  Nynorsk: programmerbar

• Polish: programowalny (pl)
• Portuguese: programável (pt)
• Romanian: programabil (ro)
• Spanish: programable (es)
• Swedish: programmerbar
• Welsh: rhaglenadwy

See also

• timer

Noun

programmable (plural programmables)

1. A calculator that allows the user to write programs.
   • 1974, The Michigan Technic, volumes 93-95, page 33:

     Most of the important decision-making functions found on computers are available on TI programmables: Looping. Branching. Flags. Sub-routines. Yet there's no special language to learn.

Translations

calculator that allows the user to write programs

• German: programmierbarer Taschenrechner m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ɡʁa.mabl/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

programmable (plural programmables)

1. programmable

Further reading

• “programmable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012