scalability.

The capacity of a system or process to accommodate changes of scale while retaining relevant performance.

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Words that belong together

• system scalability
• scalability of a method

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System scalability was limited by a component that could not handle additional requests.

The pilot established usefulness but did not test the method’s scalability.

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.