Throwable

Pronunciation

Origin

throw + -able

Full definition of throwable

Adjective

1. (computing, programming) That can be thrown in the manner of an exception.
• 1997, Babak Sadr, Grady Booch, Unified objects: object-oriented programming using C++For an object to be throwable, it must be directly or indirectly derived from the Throwable class.
• 2001, Alan Burns, Andrew J Wellings, Real-time systems and programming languagesIn general, each function may specify a list of throwable objects...
• 2006, William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC...if you need to make certain symbols visible externally for debugging purposes or for catching exceptions for throwable entities within a library.
2. That can be thrown (in any other context)

Derived terms

• throwability

Anagrams

• bowler hat

Noun

1. (computing, programming) A throwable objectExceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.