What does scalable mean?

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ˈskeɪ lə bəlscal·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scalableadjective

    capable of being scaled; possible to scale

    "the scalable slope of a mountain"

Wiktionary

  1. scalableadjective

    Capable of being climbed.

  2. scalableadjective

    Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.

ChatGPT

  1. scalable

    Scalable refers to the ability of a system, process, network, or model to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged in order to accommodate that growth. It indicates the capability to increase capacity or performance under an increased demand when resources are added. This can refer to both growing and reducing in scale.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scalableadjective

    capable of being scaled

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scalable in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scalable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of scalable in a Sentence

  1. Royal Bank:

    Our long-term vision is a scalable and more focused wealth management business serving high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients from our key operational hubs in Canada, the U.S., the British Isles and Asia.

  2. Jesper Brodin:

    TaskRabbit is a super interesting business case because it is scalable, not only geographically but also into services at home.

  3. Baoxia Mi:

    We made it from graphite, which is a material that we use in pencils for example, so it's cheap and relatively abundant. So we can use that and the process that we use to make from the graphite to the graphene oxide is actually quite scalable.

  4. Bonnier Growth Media:

    Acast has a strong team with a proven and scalable concept. We are convinced that Acast has a very interesting position on a growing podcast market.

  5. Adam Sharp:

    A lot of the decision-making always goes back to the very engineering-like culture where everything ties back to this notion of scalability, there are no one-offs. Everything is scalable. You're not trying to make a policy about one president, you're trying to make a policy about all presidents.

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