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scalable | versatility |

As an adjective scalable

is capable of being climbed.

As a noun versatility is

the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.

scalable

English

(wikipedia scalable)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being climbed.
  • Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
  • *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

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    versatility

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.
  • * 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
    • Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.