scalability

=Scalability=

toc Read here about a type of scale. The relevance of this term to the broader concern of "scale" as an "order of magnitude" is discussed.

=Overview= In computers and systems engineering, scalability is a system's capacity to adapt to changes in size and complexity.

In broader terms, scalability refers to the "ability to scale" a phenomenon. Given phenomenon P at scale A, if P is transformed and thus begins to be operative at a new scale B, then phenomenon P is said to be scalable if it still operates as expected in scale B. In this sense it can be asserted that P is scale invariant under the scales A and B.

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