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scalable, a.|ˈskeɪləb(ə)l|
[f. scale v.3 + -able.]
I.
1. Able to be scaled or climbed. rare.
1579–80North Plutarch, Aratus (1595) 1083 Without the wall the height was not so great, but that it was easily scalable with ladders. 1626Minsheu Ductor (ed. 2), Scaleable. 1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 632 Homer made..heaven scalable. 1903Quiller-Couch Adv. Harry Revel xi, The cliff hereabouts was..scalable in a score of places.
II.
2. Able to be measured or graded according to a scale.
1936Psychol. Monogr. XLVII. i. 15 A few [traits] seem common enough to be regarded as comparable from one individual to another. These might be called common or scalable traits. 1944Amer. Sociol. Rev. IX. 147/1 The example..of desire to go to school is a fictitious version of data that have actually proved scalable for the Army. 1968W. A. Scott in Lindzey & Aronson Handbk. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) II. xi. 222 A measure of the degree to which the set of items is scalable, that is, represents a unidimensional attribute. 1977R. H. Brown in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. ii. 81 The questionnaire was particularly attractive as a measuring device because it standardizes responses, making them easily scalable and retrievable, in principle by anyone.
3. Able to be changed in scale. rare.
1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 770/1 Such lasers are scaleable since large volumes could be pumped uniformly.
Hence scalaˈbility, the property of being scalable.
1944Amer. Sociol. Rev. IX. 141/2 It may well be that the formal analysis for scalability may help clarify uncertain areas of content. 1959Psychol. Rev. LXVI. 51/2 Ordinarily, when scalability is found, it is assumed that a unidimensional continuum exists. 1960Brown & Gilman in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 270 We tested all 28 items for scalability and found that a subset of them made a fairly good scale. 1978Sci. Amer. Nov. 44/2 It took demonstrations of the scalability of the technology and tests of improved beam focusing..to catalyze an effort that led to support by the AEC. |
