tokenizability
|to-ken-i-za-bi-li-ty|
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/ˌtoʊkəˌnaɪzəˈbɪlɪti/
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/ˌtəʊkəˌnaɪzəˈbɪlɪti/
(tokenize)
made into tokens
Etymology
'tokenizability' is formed in modern English by combining the verb 'tokenize' and the noun-forming suffix '-ability'. 'tokenize' itself derives from 'token' (a sign or symbol) plus the verbalizing suffix '-ize'.
'token' originates from Old English 'tacen' (meaning 'sign'), which became Middle English 'token' and then modern English 'token'. The suffix '-ize' comes from Greek/Latin verbalizing endings via French and Latin, and '-ability' comes from Latin '-abilitas' through Old French and Middle English; these pieces combined in modern English to create 'tokenize' and later 'tokenizability'.
Originally related to 'token' meaning 'sign' or 'symbol'; over time the verb 'tokenize' gained the technical sense 'to convert into tokens' (especially in computing), and 'tokenizability' took on the specific modern meaning 'capacity to be tokenized'.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
the quality or state of being capable of being broken into tokens; the degree to which something can be tokenized.
The tokenizability of the dataset affects the choice of tokenizer used in preprocessing.
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Noun 2
in computational linguistics and NLP, a measure of how easily text (or other input) can be segmented into meaningful tokens for processing by algorithms.
Languages with agglutinative morphology can present lower tokenizability for simple tokenizers.
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Last updated: 2026/01/20 07:25