Clockable

Quick meaning: Clockable is an adjective meaning (possibly uncommon or nonstandard) Able to be recorded by or on a timeclock, because it occurs during specific times.

Meaning

(possibly uncommon or nonstandard) Able to be recorded by or on a timeclock, because it occurs during specific times.

More Meanings

1. (computer science) Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
2. (transgender slang) Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.

Example Sentences

[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]

As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.”

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.

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.

Synonyms for clockable

Depending on context, synonyms include clocky.

Antonyms for clockable

Common opposites include unclockable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include timeable, timelocked, recordable, well-timed, presettable, schedulable.

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