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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
programmable
adjective
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▪ A 54-PE programmable chip whose weights can be changed by an external program is also being tested.
▪ Buy a programmable thermostat that will turn your heating system on and off according to your schedule.
▪ It also gets licences to 22V10-type programmable logic devices and Am9116 16-bit bit-slices.
▪ Mr Alger cites Altera, a maker of programmable logic devices, as a tech issue he continues to love.
▪ Oracle7 provides two types of gateways to non-Oracle data: automatic and programmable.
▪ The association defines a robot as a programmable device used either to manipulate or transport objects in a manufacturing process.
▪ This has created the need for a highly integrated network of computer systems and programmable logic controllers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
programmable

1959, from program (v.) + -able.

Wiktionary
programmable

a. Capable of being programmed.

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Usage examples of "programmable".

Solving the lookup tableitself arbitraryis prerequisite for my locating the particle of purpose, the smallest programmed machine in that regress of programmable machines making up living tissue.

It must incorporate some kind of neurophysin synthesis mechanism, one that was programmable.

Programmable neurophysin synthesis is too big, the stakes are now high enough to tempt mid-range players into the field.

The programmable electronics inside had been set to return an antiphase signal to nullify any signal it received, effectively canceling out meaningful reflections.

The programmable elec-tronics inside had been set to return an antiphase signal to nullify any signal it received, effectively canceling out meaningful reflections.

Extraordinary technical breakthroughs and scientific sophistication, such as the Tlulaxa had managed with their programmable organ farms, usually required an exchange of information and an open encouragement of innovation and genius.

E-squared PROMs, or electrically erasable programmable read-only memory chips.

Us meat puppets are all too closely tied to our neural ultrastructure, but you've got a shitload of programmable gate arrays.

Max, the gray box is some kind of a programmable data manager, both storing the data in living cells and preparing the outputs from the quadroids for projection on the wall, or wherever we want to see the image, according to the protocol selected—.

For example, almost every machine bigger than a hand tool has a programmable controller, a small computer, to run it.

He jerked open his desk drawer to reveal his new personal organizer, a programmable calculator, a mini tape recorder, fold-up binoculars, and his working snacks.

So the data that it uses is placed in a Programmable Read-Only Memory, a PROM.

Rather than programmable read-only memory, or PROM, that couldn't be erased, the EPROM allowed vendors to change code without having to manufacture new PROMs.

Sure, research on programmable matter had begun in the twentieth century with quantum dots, including the notable McCarthy patents, but this was beyond anything she had seen.

Fox was Summer House and Summer House had made its reputation on marginal-tolerance Makers: those programmable molecular machines that came questionably close to modifying human, environmental, or artificial intelligence systems beyond the limits imposed by Commonwealth law.