extensibility.

The ability of a system or design to accept additional functions or parts without a complete redesign.

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Words that belong together

• software extensibility
• design extensibility

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The report valued extensibility over a larger but inflexible initial feature set.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.