Renderable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Capable of being shown or produced visually by a computer or other device
2. Able to be generated or displayed in a form that can be seen or experienced
3. Suitable for presentation or visualization in a digital or physical format

Etymology: "Renderable" is a plain formation: the verb "render" with the suffix "-able," which turns a verb into an adjective meaning "capable of being" the action named. So "renderable" means capable of being rendered. The verb itself goes back to Old French "rendre," meaning to give back or hand over, which came from Latin "reddere," "to give back," built from "re-" (back) and "dare" (to give). Over time "render" picked up senses of delivering a service, performing a piece of music, and, in the age of computers, producing an image or document from data. The "-able" suffix comes from Latin "-abilis" through Old French, and English has attached it to verbs freely for centuries, so "renderable" needed no special coinage. Its specific sense, suitable for display in a digital or physical form, follows the computing and graphics use of "render" to mean generating a visible image or output from a model or file. The adjective therefore describes something that can be turned into a picture, page, or other output.

Synonyms: processable, executable

Antonyms: unrenderable