Admissible

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Admissible \Ad*mis"si*ble\, a. [F. admissible, LL. admissibilis.
     See {Admit}.]
     Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that
     may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is
     hardly admissible. -- {Ad*mis"si*ble*ness}, n. --
     {Ad*mis"si*bly}, adv.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  admissible
       adj : deserving to be admitted; "admissible evidence" [ant: {inadmissible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "admissible":
     OK, a propos, absolute, acceptable, ad rem, adducible, adequate,
     admissive, admissory, agreeable, all right, allowable, alright,
     appertaining, applicable, applying, apposite, appropriate, apropos,
     attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, belonging,
     better than nothing, certain, circumstantial, cogent, conclusive,
     condonable, convincing, credible, cumulative, damning, decent,
     decisive, defensible, desirable, determinative, dispensable,
     documentary, documented, eligible, enfranchised, evidential,
     evidentiary, ex parte, excusable, exemptible, expiable,
     eye-witness, factual, fair, fairish, final, firsthand, fit, fitted,
     forgivable, founded on, germane, good enough, goodish, grounded on,
     hearsay, hospitable, imbibitory, implicit, in point,
     incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, ingestive, inoffensive,
     intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, involving,
     irrefutable, irresistible, just, justifiable, lawful, legal,
     legitimate, legitimized, licit, logical, material, moderate,
     not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, nuncupative, okay,
     open, overwhelming, pardonable, passable, permissible, pertaining,
     pertinent, plausible, presentable, presumptive, pretty good,
     probative, qualified, rational, reasonable, receivable, receptible,
     receptive, recipient, relevant, reliable, remissible, respectable,
     sanctionable, sane, satisfactory, sensible, significant, sound,
     sufficient, suggestive, suitable, sure, symptomatic, telling,
     tenable, tidy, to the point, to the purpose, tolerable,
     unexceptionable, unobjectionable, valid, venial, viable,
     vindicable, warrantable, weighty, welcoming, well-argued,
     well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, with voice, with vote,
     workmanlike, worthy
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  admissible
       
           A description of a {search algorithm} that is
          guaranteed to find a minimal solution path before any other
          solution paths, if a solution exists.  An example of an
          admissible search algorithm is {A* search}.
       
          (1999-07-19)