Definitions

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  • adjective Capable of being sought.
  • adjective computing Through which one can seek back and forth; not purely sequential.

Etymologies

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seek +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Don't worry about warning messages like "unknown object" or "Stream not seekable!"

    Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Cool Edit (minor cleanup) > CDWAV > mkwact (seekable)

    bt.etree.org 2010

  • The first is a bug fix. wdiff can now cope with non-seekable input, e.g. in the form of a bash command substitution, like the following:

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Cool Edit > CDWAV > mkwact > SHN (seekable) mvernon54@attbi.com

    bt.etree.org 2010

  • Source: aud (unknown mics)? cdr eac (secure) mkwact (seekable)

    bt.etree.org 2010

  • Unfortunately we don't recognize resources hosted on these servers as seekable.

    Planet Mozilla Planet Mozilla Module Team 2010

  • If your own videos are not seekable or showing a duration then you may be facing a similar issue and it might be worthwhile trying a nightly build and seeing if that fixes it.

    Planet Mozilla Planet Mozilla Module Team 2010

  • Cool Edit (minor cleanup) > CDWAV > mkwact (seekable)

    bt.etree.org 2010

  • Once we see the '206' we mark the resource as seekable.

    Planet Mozilla Planet Mozilla Module Team 2010

  • Now, the code I was working on created a PNG and when you create a PNG you need a seekable stream.

    ASP.NET Weblogs Latest Microsoft Blogs 2010

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