maintainability.

The ease with which a system or object can be kept serviceable or repaired.

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Words that belong together

• software maintainability
• maintainability of a design

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The design improved maintainability by making worn components accessible.

Software maintainability suffered when the undocumented dependencies increased.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. 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: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.