The quality or degree to which something can be adjusted, modified, or fitted to different needs or conditions.
From 'adjust' (from Old French 'ajuster,' ad- + juste, 'exact/just') + ability suffix. The term emerged in the 19th century with industrial manufacturing, where interchangeable parts needed to be adjustable.
Adjustability became a design revolution in the 1800s—before then, things were made for specific people or purposes, but factories realized profits soared when one product could serve many customers with just a little tweaking.
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