traceable

Capable of being traced; possible to track down.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being traced; possible to track down.
    • There was no traceable evidence left when the detectives arrived.
    • Homosexuality is easily traceable in India. Dubois referred to houses devoted to male prostitution, with men dressed as women, and imitating the ways of women. - 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex,...
    • The course of the abandoned line is still clearly traceable. - 1951 January, “Notes and News: Parsonstown & Portumna Bridge Rly.”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
  2. Containing a Hamiltonian path.

Origin

Etymology tree English trace 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 traceable From trace + -able.

Forms

more traceable most traceable

Antonyms

nontraceable untraceable

Derived

hypotraceable traceability traceableness traceably