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Versatile vs Scalable - What's the difference?

versatile | scalable |

As adjectives the difference between versatile and scalable

is that versatile is capable of doing many things competently while scalable is capable of being climbed.

versatile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of doing many things competently.
  • Having varied uses or many functions.
  • Changeable or inconstant.
  • (biology) Capable of moving freely in all directions.
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  • Derived terms

    * versatility

    Anagrams

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    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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