scalable

Etymology

From scale + -able.

adj

  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
  3. (computing, logistics, business) 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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