scriptable

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adjective

That can be extended or automated through scripting.

OriginEnglish script ← Middle English scrit ← Old French escrit →
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Meanings

adjectivescriptable (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingThat can be extended or automated through scripting.
nounscriptable (plural scriptables)

plural scriptables

  1. computingSomething that can be extended or automated through scripting.

    The Ark engine itself has a module for Lua scriptables, and in particular the animation files (.anm) are defined with the Lua module.

    2003, Tom Gutschmidt, Game Programming with Python, Lua, and Ruby, page 290

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kreybʰ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kréybʰeti
  4. Proto-Italic*skreiβō
  5. Latinscrībō
  6. Latinscrīptum
  7. Old Frenchescrit
  8. Middle Englishscrit
  9. Englishscript
  10. Englishscriptable

From script + -able.

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APA

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Chicago

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