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extensibility

extensibility

1 6.2
How easily a system or product can be changed to add new features
  • noun
  • /ɪkˌstɛnsəˈbɪlɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : extensibilidad
  • Loose coupling is an important architectural property that has beneficial influences on maintainability, extensibility, robustness, scalability, and other quality properties of the system and its individual software components.

Deadlines, good cost, correctness, correctness, extensibility.

Examples

  • They are often made based on considerations of maintainability, extensibility, and performance of the system or program under development.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Scalability and extensibility have been major assets for silicon technologies, for not all technologies are scalable or extensible.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The Joomla! code has been designed for extensibility.

    Blog text (30)
  • Digitech is still the value-for-money leader where extensibility and connections are concerned.

    Blog text (30)
  • LINQ supports a very rich extensibility model that facilitates the creation of very efficient domain-specific operators for data sources.

    Blog text (12)
  • This new L2 and memory structure provides much-improved multiprocessor efficiency and system extensibility over that in the G4 system.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Design Patterns was a mid-1990s book that provided twenty-three fancy new boxes for organizing your closet, plus an extensibility mechanism for defining new types of boxes.

    Blog text (30)
  • Alemu et al. cite Wallis, who recommends that the library and the linked data community work in concert to bridge such differences to facilitate the reusability and extensibility of library data by outside users.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Coyle observes that current catalogs present static data about resources, and these systems do not take advantage of web technologies that afford dynamism, extensibility, and currency to metadata surrogates.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The extensibility of the software allows users to add new features as their needs grow.

Synonyms

adjustability
vsextensibility
1 3.8

How easy it is to change something to fit different needs

focuses on easy expansion and enhancement rather than just fitting needs
expandability
vsextensibility
1 5.4

The ability to be made larger or have more features

emphasizes easy addition and fitting different needs not only adding size
extendibility
vsextensibility
6.1

Ability to make a thing larger or add more features

focuses on easy growth and fitting new needs rather than size alone
modifiability
vsextensibility
7.0

How easy it is to change something

stresses easy growth and adjustment rather than mere alteration
flexibleness
vsextensibility
3.9

The ability to change to fit new situations

is more about planned easy growth and added features rather than pliability

Antonyms

The inability to change or fit into new situations

7.8

Being firmly held in place so it does not move or change

How Extensible

scalability
  • Specialized
5 5.3
modularity
1 6.6
extensibility
  • Specialized
1 6.2
rigidity
  • Specialized
3 6.0

Surface Forms

extensibility singular

Morphology

extensibility = extensible (transparent) = extend + ity

The formation follows the regular pattern 'extensible' + '-ity' to denote the quality or capacity to be extended, which metaphorically extends to systems and software.

Etymology

The word extensibility comes from Latin words ex- 'out' and tendere 'to stretch', the same idea behind extend and extension. So when we speak of a system or software's extensibility, we mean it can be 'stretched out' with new parts or features easily.