Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being executed or carried out.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of being executed.
- n. computing A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Capable of being executed; feasible.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
Examples
“Also, Chrome's executable is inherently unsafe even if you run as a "limited user", which for most applications thwarts 80+% of web-borne attacks.”
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“The absolute most efficient way to load data into Flash is by loading and executing compiled binary SWF files, which can contain executable byte codes and binary literals that directly creates the data structures you want to send.”
“The Internet was unknown and viruses travelled slowly on diskettes in executable programs.”
“You can provide return-code, stdout and stderr for the called executable to get a generic call-once-and-retrieve value executable, (or you can provide a script to run). import mockproc def setUp (self): self. processes = mockproc.”
“EXECUTION: Is the idea executable and are you the right person to successfully execute the idea?”
“Setup creates the Setup Capture component executable, which is then used to create a baseline as well as to decode the changes made by the different application installations after they have completed.”
“I use the following executable, which is free and works OK.”
“I am calling another executable in my application (C programing) using "system" command which is user interactive program. now i want to pass those args in system command only. system ( "executable");”
“All I get when opening the executable is a blank window with a, rather nice I must say, cross in the corner and an ok button to press.”
“To call a executable in Matlab without quitting it, just use the "!".”
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