Versatile vs Scalable - What's the difference?
versatile | scalable |
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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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.