Unrenderable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Describing something that cannot be presented or displayed due to certain limitations or constraints
2. Characterizing a state where an image or file format is not able to be processed or translated into a viewable format
3. Referring to content that fails to convert into a comprehensible or usable form due to technological or compatibility issues

Etymology: "Unrenderable" is simply the English prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "renderable", which describes something that can be rendered. In the computing sense the word now has, "rendering" is the process of turning stored data, such as a web page's code or a 3D scene's geometry, into the visible image or text a person actually sees. So something unrenderable is data that a program cannot convert into that visible form, which is why the word is most often met in error messages. The word's meaning is therefore tied to the older sense of "render" as "to give or deliver," later extended to "to reproduce or represent." That second sense is what makes "renderable" fit a picture or a page, and the negative form follows directly from it.

Synonyms: unrepresentable, inexpressible, indescribable, untranslatable, impossible to render

Antonyms: renderable, expressible, representable, translatable