comprehensible
adjective
com·pre·hen·si·ble
ˌkäm-pri-ˈhen(t)-sə-bəl 
-prē-
: capable of being comprehended : intelligible
a comprehensible explanation
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Examples of comprehensible in a Sentence
a book that makes the subject of longitude comprehensible to most laymen
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Which is to say, whatever regulators come up with must be immediately comprehensible for the average shopper.
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
This eye can inform business decisions through complex, real-world data that used to be comprehensible only to humans.
—Richard Meng, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
The concerns are comprehensible enough: in the rarefied zero-sum world of elite American education, is the use of lotteries or personality scores for admissions not discriminatory toward Asian students who must be better than best in their efforts—when their efforts have any bearing at all?
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
This means setting up systems for auditability and explainability so that AI systems are transparent and their decision-making processes—if not exactly their inner workings—are comprehensible and open to scrutiny and challenge by humans.
—Rohit Anabheri, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
This eye can inform business decisions through complex, real-world data that used to be comprehensible only to humans.
—Richard Meng, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
The concerns are comprehensible enough: in the rarefied zero-sum world of elite American education, is the use of lotteries or personality scores for admissions not discriminatory toward Asian students who must be better than best in their efforts—when their efforts have any bearing at all?
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
This means setting up systems for auditability and explainability so that AI systems are transparent and their decision-making processes—if not exactly their inner workings—are comprehensible and open to scrutiny and challenge by humans.
—Rohit Anabheri, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Comprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comprehensible. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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