selectable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder.

Latin sē-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti

Proto-Italic *legō

Latin legō

Latin sēlegō

Latin sēlēctuslbor.

English select

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English selectable

From select + -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛktəbl̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛktəbl̩/
• Hyphenation: se‧lec‧ta‧ble

Adjective

selectable (comparative more selectable, superlative most selectable)

1. Capable of being selected.

   Synonym: choosable

   Antonym: unselectable

   • 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11, page 253:

     After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]

Derived terms

• multiselectable
• nonselectable
• selectably

Translations

capable of being selected

• Finnish: valittava (fi), valittavissa oleva
• Georgian: არჩევადი (arčevadi), შერჩევადი (šerčevadi)
• German: ansteuerbar, auswählbar (de), wählbar (de)
• Portuguese: selecionável
• Turkish: seçilebilir

Noun

selectable (plural selectables)

1. (graphical user interface) An item that can be selected by the user.

Anagrams

• electables