Usually means: Program file that can run.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word executable:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. executable: Merriam-Webster
  2. executable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. executable: Collins English Dictionary
  4. executable: Vocabulary.com
  5. Executable, executable: Wordnik
  6. executable: Wiktionary
  7. Executable, executable: Dictionary.com
  8. Executable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Executable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. executable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. executable: Rhymezone
  12. Executable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. executable: FreeDictionary.org
  14. executable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. executable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. executable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. executable: Legal dictionary
  2. executable: Financial dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Executable: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. executable: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Executable: CCI Computer
  4. executable: Hacking Lexicon
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. executable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. executable: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. executable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Capable of being executed.
▸ noun:  (computing) A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.

Similar:
exercisable, runnable, enactable, executory, emulatable, usable, launchable, installable, effectible, codable, more...

Opposite:
nonexecutable, unrunnable, undecodable

Types:
application, program, script, binary, more...

Phrases:
executable file, executable code, executable content, executable binary, portable executable, more...

Adjectives:
single, new, final, same, non, main, separate, exe, actual, local, resultant

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Similar:
exercisable, runnable, enactable, executory, emulatable, usable, launchable, installable, effectible, codable, more...

Opposite:
nonexecutable, unrunnable, undecodable

Types:
application, program, script, binary, more...

Phrases:
executable file, executable code, executable content, executable binary, portable executable, dos executable, Executable and Linkable Format, Comparison of executable file formats, DOS MZ executable, more...

Adjectives:
single, new, final, same, non, main, separate, exe, actual, local, resultant

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     black,     dark gray,     steel blue, more...



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