Scalable

Origin

From scale + -able.

Full definition of scalable

Adjective

1. Capable of being climbed. from 16th c.
2. Able to be changed in scale; resizeable. from 20th c.
• 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