versatile
Printers offer surprising versatility for the money.
He was a man of astonishing versatility.
He proves himself a writer of great versatility and range.

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about-face
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metamorphose
morph
pervert
revolutionize
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Useful or advantageous

Examples of versatility

versatility
The versatility of action notation makes the task of developing its semantic theory challenging, but we believe that the result will be informative and useful.
On the downside, bond graphs do not possess the versatility of mathematical equations.
Because of their higher dexterity and versatility, redundant manipulators have been an appealing research topic in robotics.
As suggested above for woodworking, innovations that smoothed the flow of work were valued, but highly specialized machines that lacked versatility held little appeal.
Several benchmark calculations per formed on conformal meshes illustrate the versatility of the technique.
The development of electropsychology demonstrated the imaginative potential as well as the historical versatility of both, electricity and the psyche.
In these cases of locomotion on a so-called irregular terrain, legged robots demonstrate better mobility and versatility when compared to tracked or wheeled vehicles.
The contribution of the approach is its versatility in dealing with complex payment patterns and distributions of asset returns.
Versatility: different applications may have different lexical interfaces, depending on programming languages.
Such versatility raises the question of how widely social learning is used in less studied species of cetaceans.
This is possibly an indication of her versatility.
Makers of tools, hardware, ornamental terra cotta, and brickwork advertised their versatility in elaborate trade catalogs.
Their potential for primary productivity and their metabolic versatility would present an important part in nutrient cycling.
The actor needs maximum freedom and versatility in movement, in vocalization, and in the expression of emotion.
Desiccation of the soil prior to experimentation affected the functional diversity by decreasing the versatility in substrate utilization.
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