extensible

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  1. adjective Capable of being extended or protruded: an extensible tongue; extensible tables.
  2. adjective Computer Science Of or relating to a programming language or a system that can be modified by changing or adding features.

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  • It is flexible, extensible, and relatively easy to setup and maintain. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • I spend a lot of my time these days working on software architectures and trying to come up with the most simple, extensible, and future proof. —  Doug on the Eclipse CDT
  • Ubuntu with one CD and an OS that includes an integrated, extensible, and slick software package manager where all the software is approved and tailored to the installation? —  Latest News from Open Source Magazine
  • Should these categories be extensible, and if so, how? —  doggdot.us
  • Eclipse has emerged as the platform that finally integrates development tools from multiple vendors into a common, extensible, and widely supported framework. —  Latest News from Open Source Magazine
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  1. from French extensible = Spanish extensible = Portuguese extensivel, from Latin as if *extensibilis, from extendere, past participle extentus, later extensus, extend: see extend, extense.
 

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