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Meaning of clockable | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Able to be recorded by or on a timeclock, because it occurs during specific times.
    nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly, uncommon
  2. Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
    not-comparable
  3. Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.
    not-comparable

Examples

“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").”
“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.”
“[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]”
“Many if not most of us strive for “it” but few trans women ever get to 100 percent passability. In my experience, there's usually something about us that makes us clockable on closer inspection. For trans women, this is often our voices.”
“As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.””

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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