readable
Enlarging the text can enhance readability of sites with very small text.
For sheer readability, it is hard to beat her first novel.
The agency is improving the readability of all drug labels.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Writing & typing
agraphia
asemic
bang
bang something out
bash something out
borrow
chart
dot
draw
inscribe
keyboard
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put someone down for something
put something/someone down
re-register
re-registration
recompose
semiotics
speller
transcribe

Examples of readability

readability
Improving the readability of time frequency and time scale representations by the reassignment method.
Unfortunately, this breadth takes somewhat of a toll on the book's readability and focus.
This leaves programmers free to write readable programs without paying a performance penalty-a rare "sweet spot" in the readability-performance trade-off.
For easier readability, we have chosen not to use the overlining/underling markup for tuples.
His report was very helpful in improving the structure of the paper, and thus (hopefully!) its readability.
Perhaps this should not be surprising, since current psycholinguistic knowledge of the readability impact of different choices is inadequate.
Adaptation to specific machine requirements reduces readability and portability of code and seriously complicates code maintenance.
Finally, using footnotes instead of endnotes would have enhanced readability.
The authors are right to be sceptical about the over-simplifications inherent in using readability formulae and computerised grammarcheckers.
Moreover, the text is constantly interrupted by selected key documents, which does not do much for its readability.
For the sake of readability we have omitted the type information (in square brackets).
Having introduced this solution, though, we will henceforward omit the ordinary and special subscripts for better readability.
Error handling for readability of the example is omitted.
We thank the anonymous reviewer, whose thoughtful assessment of our study has improved significantly its focus and readability.
The readability rules favour solutions with short, common discourse connectives, and punctuation between discourse segments that shortens sentences.
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