Scalable

//ˈskeɪ.lə.bl̩// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being climbed.
  2. 2
    Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.

    "To use one of the ugliest words in the contemporary lexicon, Glasman and his colleagues believe that micro-democracy is scalable: get it right at the local level, and the rest will follow."

  3. 3
    Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.

    "Most systems have a small host table, but it cannot be used for all applications because it is not scalable and does not have a standard method for automatic distribution."

  4. 4
    Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being scaled; possible to scale wordnet

Synonyms

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ascendableultra scalable

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"To use one of the ugliest words in the contemporary lexicon, Glasman and his colleagues believe that micro-democracy is scalable: get it right at the local level, and the rest will follow."

Etymology

From scale + -able.

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