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clockable

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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