clockable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
adj
Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.
Example Sentences
- "The experience of time is therefore a measurable experience as was similarly the case in the social form of the mass experience. All the work done by craftsmen, secretaries, administrators, and the like, is “clockable.” Work begun and finished is clocked ("nine-to-fivers")."
- "Then if I completes its computational task in exactly α steps we say that the ordinal α is clockable. By the previous definition, any natural number is clockable. In addition, there are many other ordinals that are clockable."
- "[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]"
- "Many if not most of us strive for “it” but few trans women ever get to 100 percent passability. In my experience, there's usually something about us that makes us clockable on closer inspection. For trans women, this is often our voices."
- "As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.”"