Clockable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be recorded by or on a timeclock, because it occurs during specific times. nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly, uncommon

    "The experience of time is therefore a measurable experience as was similarly the case in the social form of the mass experience. All the work done by craftsmen, secretaries, administrators, and the like, is “clockable.” Work begun and finished is clocked ("nine-to-fivers")."

  2. 2
    Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation. not-comparable

    "Then if I completes its computational task in exactly α steps we say that the ordinal α is clockable. By the previous definition, any natural number is clockable. In addition, there are many other ordinals that are clockable."

  3. 3
    Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing. not-comparable

    "[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]"

Synonyms

All synonyms
clocky

Example

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"The experience of time is therefore a measurable experience as was similarly the case in the social form of the mass experience. All the work done by craftsmen, secretaries, administrators, and the like, is “clockable.” Work begun and finished is clocked ("nine-to-fivers")."

Etymology

From clock + -able.

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