as in understandable
capable of being understood
speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible
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Recent Examples of intelligible
Intergenerational conversations are getting less and less intelligible, some said.
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Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2024
To reconstruct an intelligible sentence from noisy speech, a certain percentage of time-frequency units must be labeled 1.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2016
And the question going forward though will be how much standard is required to create a boundary and to satisfy the intelligible principle of what did Congress actually do.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Hell’s Kitchen Cody Spencer — The Outsiders Everyone agrees that Hell’s Kitchen sounds incredible, whether or not its plot and themes are intelligible.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2024
To reconstruct an intelligible sentence from noisy speech, a certain percentage of time-frequency units must be labeled 1.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2016
And the question going forward though will be how much standard is required to create a boundary and to satisfy the intelligible principle of what did Congress actually do.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Hell’s Kitchen Cody Spencer — The Outsiders Everyone agrees that Hell’s Kitchen sounds incredible, whether or not its plot and themes are intelligible.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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