deleteable

English

Adjective

deleteable (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of deletable
   • 1981, Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 417, column 2:

     The selectional restrictions imposed by the actions or states in which the pronouns participate can also be used to help determine the possible referent, so that, in the example above, “them” should refer to a plural object that is deleteable. These selectional restrictions are very powerful in limited domains. For instance, in our example domain, only messages are deleteable.

   • 1995, Peter G. Magid, Ira H. Schneider, OS/2 Warp Uncensored, IDG Books Worldwide, →ISBN, page 166:

     For example, the original object may be not deleteable (that is, its style contains the NODELETE=YES flag) but the Shadow object may be deleteable.

   • 2004, Kevin E. Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt, “Chapter 3: SQL Statement Command Reference”, in SQL in a Nutshell, 2nd edition, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, “DECLARE CURSOR Command”, page 247:

     First of all, a cursor is assumed to be read-only if it is not deleteable. A DB2 cursor is deleteable when it has the FOR UPDATE clause plus: / • The FROM clause of the SELECT statement references only one base table or deleteable view.