tractability

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  1. The state or process of being tractable; especially, docility; sub-missiveness. I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxix. A wild man, not of the woods, but the cloisters, nor yet civilized into the tractabilities of home. Bulwer, Caxtons, i. 1. (Latham.)

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  • The complexity (and biological realism) of such models often trades off with tractability: for instance, individual-based simulation models allow for unlimited incorporation of biological detail, but rarely for analytical exploration of the model dynamics. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • While political factors have only marginal effect, it turns out that tractability explains budget overruns well; if users and producers are strong, budget overruns tend to be large. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Where the manual S3 shines is in overtaking tractability and its maximum torque of 330Nm is available from 2400 all the way through to 5200rpm. —  Motoring
  • First, the assumptions of clearly-defined laws and identical expectations were easily translated into simple mathematical models-and this mathematical tractability soon came to be viewed as a more important academic objective than correspondence to reality or predictive power.
  • This was gaining ground in the 1970s for similar reasons-an attractive combination of mathematical and ideological tractability.
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