expandability
Room for growth
Expandability is the capacity to be expanded or enlarged.
The term appears most often in technical contexts—a computer system's expandability determines whether you can add memory, storage, or new components: The laptop's limited expandability frustrated power users.
More broadly, expandability describes any system's potential for growth or extension.
Capacity for alteration
- modifiabilityCapacity to be adjusted
- configurabilityExtent of customization options
- customizabilityAbility to be tailored
- reconfigurabilityCapacity to be reshaped
convertibility · transformability · evolvability · flexibility · interoperability · retrofitting · upgradeability · backward-compatible
Divisibility into independent units
- extensibilityCapacity for adding features
- growthIncrease in size
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- enlargementIncrease in size
augmentation · upscaling · multiplication · proliferation · incremental · headroom · bandwidth · potential
Added part or duration
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- increaseGrowth in amount
- wideningIncreasing in extent
deepening · enhancement · progression · elaboration · unfolding · spreading · diversification · branching
Having many uses
- multipurposeUseful for varied applications
- all-purposeSuitable for everything
- multiuseHaving several applications
- general-purposeUsable across many contexts
universal · cross-functional · resourceful · dynamic · modular · configurable · interchangeable · transformable
adjustability
Capacity for alteration
- modifiabilityCapacity to be adjusted
- configurabilityExtent of customization options
- customizabilityAbility to be tailored
reconfigurability · convertibility · transformability · evolvability · flexibility · interoperability · retrofitting · upgradeability · backward-compatible · interchangeable
modularity
Divisibility into independent units
- extensibilityCapacity for adding features
- growthIncrease in size
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
enlargement · augmentation · upscaling · multiplication · proliferation · incremental · headroom · bandwidth · potential · capacity
extension
Added part or duration
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- increaseGrowth in amount
widening · deepening · enhancement · progression · elaboration · unfolding · spreading · diversification · branching · ramification
multifunctional
Having many uses
- multipurposeUseful for varied applications
- all-purposeSuitable for everything
- multiuseHaving several applications
general-purpose · universal · cross-functional · resourceful · dynamic · modular · configurable · interchangeable · transformable · jack-of-all-trades
- product featuressize, color, durable, quality, material
- flexibilitystretch, elastic, bendy, stretchy, bendable
- modular designmodularity, modules, components, encapsulation, decoupling
expandabilityfixedness
State of being stationary
limitation · boundedness · ceiling · limitedness · restrictedness
expandabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
inflexibility · immutability · fixity · unchangeability · incompatibility
expand, expansion, expanse, expanded, expansive, expanding, expands, expandable, expander