wearable

English

Etymology

wear +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweəɹəbl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

wearable (comparative more wearable, superlative most wearable)

1. Able to be worn.

Derived terms

• wearable camera

 

Translations

able to be worn

• Bulgarian: подходящ за носене (podhodjašt za nosene)
• Esperanto: metebla
• Finnish: puettava (fi)
• French: mettable (fr)
• Georgian: ტარებადი (ṭarebadi)
• German: tragbar (de)
• Greek: φορετός (el) (foretós)
• Hungarian: hordható (hu), viselhető (hu)
• Italian: indossabile, portabile (it)
• Manx: yn-cheau
• Romanian: purtabil (ro) m or n, îmbrăcabil m or n
• Serbo-Croatian: nosiv (sh) m
• Spanish: ponible (es), vestible
• Ukrainian: носимий m (nosymyj)
• Walloon: metåve (wa) m or f

Noun

wearable (plural wearables)

1. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
2. (computing) Ellipsis of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).
   • 2015 February 10, Mark Curtis, “Wearables, hearables and nearables won't dethrone smartphones”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     With the advantage of being glanceable, wearables are already making inroads into the smartphone’s territory. Smart watches, for example, offer quick and light interactions such as providing real-time snapshots of weather, travel and stock market information and notifying the wearer of new messages through a vibration on the skin.

Hypernyms

• (computing): device, gadget

Hyponyms

• (computing): fitness tracker, heart rate monitor, smartwatch

Translations

computer worn on the body

• German: Wearable Computer (de) m, Wearable n

Further reading

• Wearable computer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

wearable m (plural wearables)

1. wearable