scalable

English

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Etymology

From scale +‎ -able.

Adjective

scalable (comparative more scalable, superlative most scalable)

1. Capable of being climbed. [from 16th c.]
2. Able to be changed in scale; resizeable. [from 20th c.]
   • 2011, David Runciman, "Socialism in One Country", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     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.

Derived terms

• scalability

Translations

able to be changed in scale; resizeable

• Estonian: skaleeritav (et)
• French: extensible (fr), évolutif (fr)

• Russian: масштабируемый (ru) (masštabírujemyj)  (able to be changed in scale), расширяемый (ru) (rasširjájemyj) 

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• Estonian: mõõtmestatav (et)

• Macedonian: размерлив (mk) (rázmerliv) m

References

• scalable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• scalable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913