Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being extensible: as, the extensibility of a fiber or of a plate of metal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The capability of being extended
  • noun computing A quality of design that takes possible future advances into consideration and attempts to accommodate them

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Examples

  • Semantic extensibility is harder, but can also be done.

    Reflective Surface - More on the evolution of programming languages 2003

  • Coflight is also the first FDP to enjoy an open architecture funded over Standard and Open Source middleware technologies to guarantee the long-term extensibility, scalability and availability of supply.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • We’ve built in extensibility points, so you can add functionality to Facebook Open Platform like your own tags and API methods.

    Parsing the “open” in Facebook’s “fbOpen” platform | FactoryCity 2008

  • TV Raman made a comment a number of times that we need to partition the idea of extensibility into two parts: extending the platform vs. extending the language.

    Planet Apache 2009

  • One of the primary reasons for doing this project is to give the back-end code a lot more extensibility, which is key in projects where you want to one day expand and improve on.

    King Gary 2009

  • It supports IMAP and POP3 servers, has tabbed message browsing, advanced folder management, and the kind of extensibility that everyone has come to love in its sibling Firefox.

    Five Best Portable Applications | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • This Ars piece makes the case for more "extensibility" and interoperability en route to a primer on "Seed".

    almost effortless 2009

  • For that kind of extensibility and manageability, BIDPO felt that VMware's virtualized cloud platform was the best fit for the project.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • The dll is licensed with the product - you're allowed to use the dll with the product, or for "extensibility" with the product (in this case office).

    ASP.NET Forums 2009

  • It supports IMAP and POP3 servers, has tabbed message browsing, advanced folder management, and the kind of extensibility that everyone has come to love in its sibling Firefox.

    doggdot.us 2009

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