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Comprable 

A phonetic spelling of the word comparable (Pronounced "Com-parable" with the letter "a" being silenced)

Used to describe something as "sufficiently similar" or an "adequate/suitable replacement". This is different to comparable which is broadly used to indicate similarities between things.
Waiter: I'm afraid we don't have any salmon left, would a beef dish be comparable?
Customer: Well, they are comparable in that they are both food, but they aren't comprable as they aren't sufficiently similar like a cod dish.
Comprable by Frank Turing January 28, 2022

Comparable 

Same difference are comparable.
Comparable by Dirtydancer October 8, 2014

comprable 

In Spanish, it means buyable or "may/can be bought". In English, it's a misspelling of the word "comparable", due to the fact that the first "a" is silent in the most common of multiple widely accepted pronunciations. Some people claim it's a fake word that people ironically use to sound smart, but the real irony is that people who make that claim are trying to sound smart when they don't know what they're talking about. It's not a fake word, it's a phonetic misspelling of a real word.
Saying that "comprable" is a fake word is comparable to saying that "diffrence" is a fake word.
comprable by bis225 September 9, 2019

Comprable 

A fake word people ironically use to sound smart when they should be using the oh so familiar comparable. Also British drawl when pronouncing comparable sounds like comprable but it is not a new word.
Kelly Preston's micro derm abrasion commercials: "this treatment is comprable to expensive salon treatments"
Comprable by R5Don4 August 8, 2009

computable 

The property of a problem being solved by means of a Turing machine.

In other words, can we write a program to solve the problem? If so, then the problem is computable.
The sorting problem is computable. I can sort lists of things based on a common comparator.

The halting problem is not computable.
computable by alpsmac February 23, 2010

Comparable<T> 

A Java Interface signifying the client that it can compare two objects which implement this. Essentially, it forces the existence of the compareTo(T otherObj) method -- depicted below. This tells a user it can use this method to compare these two objects. Typically this comparable also allows the proper implementation of an equals(Object other) method, as this would be any case in which compareTo(T otherObj) would return a 0.
public interface Comparable<T> {

public int compareTo(T otherObj);

}
Comparable<T> by gunvalid January 21, 2019
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