throwable

comparative more throwable · superlative most throwable

1. Capable of being thrown.

   Antonyms: unthrowable

2. computingCapable of being thrown in the manner of an exception.

   In general, each function may specify a list of throwable objects […]

   2001, Alan Burns, Andrew J Wellings, Real-time systems and programming languages

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   For an object to be throwable, it must be directly or indirectly derived from the Throwable class.

   1997, Babak Sadr, Grady Booch, Unified objects: object-oriented programming using C++

   […] if you need to make certain symbols visible externally for debugging purposes or for catching exceptions for throwable entities within a library.

   2006, William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC

plural throwables

1. Something that is throwable.

   Aside from chucking things, you can also dash – useful for stealing throwables right out of the opposition’s meaty hands or even catching objects mid-air as they sail right at you.

   2013 January, Toby McCasker, “When Vikings Attack!”, in Adam Mathew, editor, PlayStation Official Magazine – Australia, number 77, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74

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   Speaking of cycling, most things are recycled: There are bins for paper and bins for cans. Most plastic throwables are simply not allowed (though organizers haven’t quite found a substitute for forks, spoons and knives).

   1997, Carol des Lauriers Cieri, Donna Gold, “Fairs”, in The Insiders’ Guide to Maine’s Mid-Coast, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Daily News Enterprises; Manteo, N.C.: Insiders’ Publishing, →ISBN, page 211

   Transforming objects’ states identically by manipulating them in the same way affords infants a way to begin constructing functional equivalence classes even when the objects do not belong to the same predicate class (Piaget, 1952a). For example, simultaneously throwing a doll and a cup transforms both into functionally equivalent ‘throwables.’

   2003, Jonas Langer, Susan Rivera, Matthew Schlesinger, Ann Wakeley, “Early Cognitive Development: Ontogeny and Phylogeny”, in Jaan Valsiner, Kevin J[oseph] Connolly, editors, Handbook of Developmental Psychology, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, published 2005, →ISBN, part 2 (Prenatal and Infant Development), page 146

2. computingAny object that can be thrown in the manner of an exception.

   Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.