extensibility

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English extensible

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English extensibility

From extensible + -ity.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˌstɛn.səˈbɪ.lə.ti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

extensibility (usually uncountable, plural extensibilities)

1. The capability of being extended.
   1. (computing) A quality of design that takes possible future advances into consideration and attempts to accommodate them.

      Hyponym: hyperextensibility

Derived terms

• hyperextensibility

Related terms

• Extensible Markup Language

Translations

capability of being extended

• Bulgarian: разтегаемост f (raztegaemost)
• Catalan: extensibilitat f
• Czech: rozšiřitelnost f
• German: Erweiterbarkeit f
• Greek: εκτατότητα (el) f (ektatótita)
• Italian: estensibilità (it) f, prolungabilità f
• Manx: yn-sheeyntaght f
• Portuguese: extensibilidade (pt) f

See also

• forward compatibility
• future-proofing