satisfiable

/'sætisfaiəbl/

Thân thiện

Definition

Adjective: - Capable of being satisfied or fulfilled: Describes something (like a need, desire, or condition) that can be met, appeased, or contented.

Usage and Examples

The adjective "satisfiable" is used to describe requirements, demands, or appetites that can be fulfilled. - The customer's request for a refund was satisfiable under the store's policy. - A basic human need like hunger is satisfiable, but greed often is not. - The software checks if all satisfiable conditions are met before proceeding.

Advanced Usage

• In Logic and Computing: In formal logic and computer science, a set of constraints or a Boolean formula is described as "satisfiable" if there exists at least one assignment of values that makes it true.
  • The theorem prover's job is to determine if the logical statement is satisfiable.

Variants and Related Words

• Satisfy (verb): To meet the needs, expectations, or desires of someone; to fulfill a condition.
• Satisfaction (noun): The feeling of pleasure or fulfillment when a need or desire is met.
• Satiable (adjective): A less common synonym, specifically meaning capable of being appeased or sated (often used for hunger or thirst).
• Unsatisfiable (adjective): Incapable of being satisfied or fulfilled.

Synonyms

• Fulfillable
• Gratifiable
• Meetable
• Appeasable

Antonyms

• Insatiable
• Unsatisfiable
• Unquenchable (often for thirst or desire)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. capable of being sated
   • a satiable thirst
   • a satiable appetite

Từ đồng nghĩa

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