Thesaurus / tractable
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They’d take those objects — which may have been hard to study on their own — and break them into combinatorial pieces that were more tractable.
A MATHEMATICIAN’S UNANTICIPATED JOURNEY THROUGH THE PHYSICAL WORLDKEVIN HARTNETTDECEMBER 16, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEMore inspiring is to say why the problem is in fact more tractable than it seems—as long as you believe that, of course.
HOW TO PITCH AND WRITE AN OPINION PIECE FOR MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWAMY NORDRUMOCTOBER 15, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThat, Let’s Fund says, “makes this much more politically tractable than carbon taxes.”
WANT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTIVELY? HERE’S WHERE TO DONATE YOUR MONEY.SIGAL SAMUELSEPTEMBER 17, 2020VOXTo avoid this problem, the researchers came up with several shortcuts and simplifications that help focus on the most important interactions, making the calculations tractable while still providing a precise enough result to be practically useful.
NEW ALGORITHM PAVES THE WAY TOWARDS ERROR-FREE QUANTUM COMPUTINGEDD GENTAUGUST 14, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Theorists have explored these situations most thoroughly, in part because they are the only examples tractable with chalkboard mathematics.
BIG BOUNCE SIMULATIONS CHALLENGE THE BIG BANGCHARLIE WOODAUGUST 4, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThey were now quite tractable and never persisted in doing anything against our wishes.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe man grinned, and, though Alfreton remembered that he was not usually so tractable with him, proceeded to do Winston's bidding.
WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIEHAROLD BINDLOSSIt was very tractable and gentle in its temper, and never took advantage of the partiality shown to it.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISWhen in masses they are the quietest and most tractable workmen it is possible to have to deal with.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREETThe Paca very easily becomes domesticated, and is very gentle and tractable, unless when much irritated.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONWORDS RELATED TO TRACTABLE
- acquiescent
- apathetic
- asleep
- bearing
- compliant
- cool
- docile
- enduring
- flat
- forbearing
- going through motions
- hands off
- idle
- indifferent
- inert
- laid-back
- latent
- long-suffering
- moony
- motionless
- nonresistant
- nonviolent
- patient
- phlegmatic
- poker-faced
- quiescent
- quiet
- receptive
- resigned
- sleepy
- static
- stolid
- submissive
- tractable
- unassertive
- unflappable
- uninvolved
- unresisting
- walking through it
- yielding
- accommodated
- acquiescent
- adapted
- adjusted
- agreeable
- amenable
- biddable
- calm
- compliant
- cordial
- deferential
- docile
- genial
- gentle
- long-suffering
- manageable
- nonresisting
- obedient
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- peaceable
- philosophical
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- quiet
- ready
- reconciled
- renouncing
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- stoical
- subdued
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- tame
- tolerant
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- unassertive
- unprotesting
- unresisting
- well-disposed
- willing
- yielding
- abject
- accommodating
- acquiescent
- amenable
- bowing down
- comformable
- complying
- deferential
- docile
- domesticated
- dutiful
- giving-in
- humble
- ingratiating
- lowly
- malleable
- meek
- menial
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- obedient
- obeisant
- obeying
- obsequious
- passive
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- pliable
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- resigned
- servile
- slavish
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- tractable
- uncomplaining
- unresisting
- yes
- yielding
- acclimatized
- amenable
- biddable
- bridled
- broken
- busted
- civilized
- cultivated
- disciplined
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- domestic
- fearless
- gentle
- gentle as a lamb
- habituated
- harmless
- harnessed
- housebroken
- kindly
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- mild
- muzzled
- obedient
- overcome
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- subdued
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- tractable
- trained
- unafraid
- unresisting
- yoked
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