extensible Definition
ex·ten·sible (ek sten′sə bəl, ik-)
adjective
that can be extended
Etymology: Fr < ML extensibilis < L extensus, pp. of extendere
extensible Related Forms
ex·ten′·sibil′·ity noun
extensible Usage Examples
Preposition: in
- way: What is required is for conversion utilities to be extensible in the same way as the NDF datasets themselves.
- future: Will Microsoft be providing something extensible in the future?
Infinitive complement
- allow: In addition it must be extensible to allow for a future widening of the metadata system to accommodate new requests from future projects.
- handle: They particularly are extensible to handle more than just English.
- let: More powerful still ( as an editor ) is the shareware Alpha which is extensible enough to let you perform almost any TeX-related job.
- enable: Therefore, the work done to create relational indexing is not extensible to enable searching of other databases.
- include: The architecture is both elegant and extensible to include any new Web based elements which might be added to HTML in the future.
Modifies a noun
- hypertext: Extensible HyperText Markup Language ( XHTML ) is the type of computer code which lies behind this website.
- architecture: Its powerful, extensible software architecture lets you deliver state-of-the-art digital content over the Web or on CD-ROM.
- framework: Zope is an extensible framework that allows Products to be installed to accomplish specific tasks.
- platform: What Eclipse provides is an extensible development platform with application frameworks for building software in a consistent way.
- language: James Clark closed his talk with the remark: Creating a good, extensible style language is hard!
- mechanism: The DB Interface Module also provides an extensible mechanism for defining SQL expressions for your specific needs.
Modifying Another Word
- infinitely: You can make a simple, complete game without much effort and it's almost infinitely extensible.
- readily: The model is readily extensible to more complex sound generation processes.
- easily: The tool is also built in modular form to be easily extensible.
- highly: Three main types exist: Highly extensible: Highly extensible bandages can be extended by more than 120 per cent of their original length.
- fully: This makes DaRT networks fully extensible with no wiring or central switching facility.
- very: The Canvas framework is designed to be very extensible.
Used with adjective complement
use: What is gdbm GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing.
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