searchable

adj, noun — 3 senses

searchable

adj

US /ˈsɝt͡ʃəbəl/

Etymology From search + -able.

1

Capable of being searched, especially something that has an automated search function included.

  • The new searchable database is much more useful than the old paper records.
2

Capable of being searched for.

  • Other searchable items were common or at least not infrequent.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:
Derived terms
nonsearchable, searchableness, unsearchable

searchable

noun

Etymology From search + -able.

1

Something that can be searched, or searched for.

  • A quite accurate but clumsy paraphrase of this rhetorical question could be “Your attempt to find out the searchables of the unsearchable God is doomed to failure”.2015, Reuven Tsur, On the Shore of Nothingness:

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