English Dictionary: feasible | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for feasible | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feasible \Fea"si*ble\a. [F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere. See {Fact}, {Feat}.] 1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. --Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. --Beaconsfield. 2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land. [R.] --R. Trumbull. {Fea"si*ble*ness}, n. --{Fea"si*bly}, adv. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
feasible {polynomial} time (that is, for a problem set of size N, the resources required to solve the problem can be expressed as some polynomial involving N). Problems that are "feasible" are said to be "in P" where P is polynomial time. Problems that are "possible" but not "feasible" are said to be "in NP". (2001-04-12) |