scalable
adjCA, US, UK /ˈskeɪ.lə.bl̩/ · AU, NZ /ˈskæɪ.lə.bl̩/
Etymology From scale + -able.
1
Capable of being climbed.
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.2011, David Runciman, “Socialism in One Country”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
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Business, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.2002, Craig Hunt, TCP/IP Network Administration 3rd ed, page 82:
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Business, Manufacturing Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
Of an engineering drawing or its features
- Derived terms
- nonscalable, rescalable, Scala, scalably
- Related terms
- scalability, scale down, scale up, expandable, shrinkable