tickable

adj — 4 senses

tickable

adj

/ˈtɪkəbəl/

Etymology From tick + -able.

1

That can be ticked; capable of being marked with a tick or check mark.

  • tickable boxes in a questionnaire
2

Biology, Birdwatching, Natural sciences, Ornithology Of a bird, located so that it may be travelled to and viewed.

3

Biology, Birdwatching, Natural sciences, Ornithology Of an observation, good enough to ensure correct identification and therefore allow the bird to be added to a list of observed birds.

  • On landing the dark forms of the jungle fowl could be seen scattering across the airfield, but we were moving too fast for me to get a tickable view.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 109:
4

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.

  • A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block.2017, Branko Ajzele, Mastering PHP 7, page 143:

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