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clockable (not comparable)

1. (possibly uncommon or nonstandard) Able to be recorded by or on a timeclock, because it occurs during specific times.
   • 2013, M.S. Frings, Lifetime: Max Scheler’s Philosophy of Time, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 36:

     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").

2. (computer science) Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
   • 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos, Hypercomputation: Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Barrier, →ISBN:

     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.

3. (transgender slang) Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.

   Synonym: clocky

   • 2017, Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:

     […] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]

   • 2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

     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.

   • 2019, Mia Fletcher, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State‎, page 14:

     As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clockable.

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