tractable

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Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time
Capable of being shaped; malleable

I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .

Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable. in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner :.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable

Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable.

Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution

This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.

easily led or controlled
{a} manageable, governable, palpable
If you say that a person, problem, or device is tractable, you mean that they can be easily controlled or dealt with. the country's least tractable social problems. intractable. easy to control or deal with   intractable (tractabilis, from tractare , from trahere )
Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner
Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures
Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures
readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"
of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
being
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives being of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
{s} obedient, submissive, docile
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives
tractability
The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness
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In a tractable manner; with compliance or docility
tractability
{n} the quality of being docile
tractableness
{n} a tractable quality, compliance
tractableness
{n} towardliness
tractableness
{n} towardness
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{a} with ready compliance, gently
tractability
{i} convenience, amenity; docility, manageability, obedience
tractability
the trait of being easily persuaded
tractability
The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness
tractableness
The state of being tractable; tractability
tractably
docilely, compliantly
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