targetable

That can be targeted (directed towards a target).

Adjective

  1. That can be targeted (directed towards a target).
    • Since the Soviet Union is lagging far behind the U.S. in multiple independently targetable missiles which are capable of attacking many strategic targets of the opposite side,[…] - 1974, Hsinhua Weekly:
  2. That can be targeted; i.e., that can be made into a target (of attack, etc).
    • Do Islamic juridical discourses stress the distinction between the targetable soldiers at Fort Hood and the nontargetable civilians of London, Madrid, and New York? - 2011 December 5, A. Afsaruddin, Islam, the State,...
    • ... there are many legally targetable soldiers, for example, who are not actually engaging in harm. Consider the problem of the sleeping soldier. Just who are the “innocent” in bellum justum? - 2016 August 25, David M....

Origin

Etymology tree English target Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English targetable From target + -able.

Derived

nontargetable untargetable