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What does tractable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tractable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
  2. Capable of being shaped; malleable.
  3. (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.
  4. (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
  5. (computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
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Arguably, however, less tractable difficulties confront him in the realm of spirits.
To make the method tractable, we approximate this distribution by six equiprobable rate categories.
Humans would have selected animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
The most convenient or tractable mathematical solutions were used for anatomies or different classes of structures.
Mules and hinnies are virtually always sterile, but male mules should be gelded to keep them tractable.
And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff.

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