scalability
English meaning: Scalability
Definition
The capacity of a system or business to handle growth without losing performance.
Example
“Cloud infrastructure gives the platform the scalability to serve millions of new users.”
Another example: “The database struggled with scalability once the user base passed a million.”
Usage — When, Where & How
A noun, especially in technology and business, for the ability of a system or company to handle growth without losing performance ('issues of scalability', 'designed for scalability').
Etymology & Origin
English — Origin & History
Noun form of 'scalable', from 'scale'; emerged in computing and business contexts.
Synonyms
- expandability
- extensibility
- growth capacity
Related Words
- maintainability
- extensibility
- caching
- scalable
- latency
- clustering
- sql
- throughput
- reliability
- router
- relational
- resilience
Common Collocations
- issues of scalability
- designed for scalability
- scalability and performance
- limited scalability
- improve scalability
Word Forms
scalability (n); scalable (adj); scale (v/n)
Word Tools
Tools & Calculators
Literary Heritage
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
/To thine own self be true/
“Be honest with yourself — and as naturally as night follows day, you will be unable to be false to others.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
/I'm nobody! Who are you?/
“I am nobody — and that quiet anonymity is more honest than the noise of public fame.”
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- English
- English
- Script
- Latin
- Family
- Indo-European
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