swappable

swappable

English

Etymology

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English swap
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 swappable

    From swap + -able.

    Adjective

    swappable (not comparable)

    1. That can be swapped.
      • 2001, Per Brinch Hansen, Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing to Distributed Systems‎[1], page 451:
        The resident data structures of the kernels serve as caches on the swappable databases maintained by the managers.

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