parsable

parsable

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English parse
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English parsable

    From parse + -able.

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    Adjective

    parsable (comparative more parsable, superlative most parsable)

    1. (grammar, computing) Able to be parsed.
      Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.
      • 2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action‎[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
        The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.

    Usage notes

    Both the spellings parsable and parseable are widely used with similar frequency;[1] the spelling parsable (without the ‘e’) is preferred in formal usage, according to the rule:

    “Verbs drop silent final -e except after c and g (e.g. movable but changeable)”

    as mentioned in the OED, and used in W3C standards.

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    References

    1. ^ “parsable, parseable”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

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