adj
Meaning 1
Capable of being climbed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unscalable
Standard Lemma guide
scalable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪ.lə.bl̩/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈskæɪ.lə.bl̩/
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adj
Meaning 2
Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unscalable
adj
Meaning 3
Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: logistics
Topics: business, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: ungrowable, unscalable
adj
Meaning 4
Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
capable of being scaled; possible to scale
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the scalable slope of a mountain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unscalable
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *skend-der. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh2 Proto-Italic *skand-slā Latin scālabor. Middle English scale English scale Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English scalable From scale + -able.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: klimbaar — capable of being climbed
- Dutch: beklimbaar — capable of being climbed
- Dutch: bestijgbaar — capable of being climbed
- German: skalierbar — capable of being climbed
- Italian: scalabile — capable of being climbed
- Macedonian: искачлив (iskačliv) — capable of being climbed
- Polish: skalowalny — capable of being climbed
- Spanish: escalable — capable of being climbed
- Swedish: bestigbar — capable of being climbed
- Catalan: escalable — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Dutch: schaalbaar — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Dutch: opschaalbaar — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Estonian: skaleeritav — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- French: extensible — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- French: évolutif — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Greek: επεκτάσιμος (epektásimos) — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Italian: riproporzionabile — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Macedonian: размерлив (razmerliv) — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Polish: skalowalny — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Russian: масштаби́руемый (masštabírujemyj) — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Russian: расширя́емый (rasširjájemyj) — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Spanish: escalable — able to be changed in scale; resizeable
- Swedish: skalbar — able to be changed in scale; resizeable