Scrollable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Capable of being moved vertically or horizontally on a screen or device display to reveal additional content beyond the visible area ; describing an interface element that allows users to navigate through extended information by sliding or dragging
2. Describing content or an area on electronic displays that can be shifted up, down, left, or right to access hidden information ; having the property that permits movement beyond the initially visible bounds to examine more material
3. Relating to digital or graphical sections that support navigation through content by moving the viewable portion along its length or width ; possessing the functionality to shift displayed items in order to see information that cannot fit in one screen view

Etymology: The word is simply "scroll" plus the suffix "-able," meaning "capable of being." "Scroll" itself came into English from Old French "escroe" (later "escroue"), and the older Latin ancestry runs through "scrinium," a case or box for keeping papers, which is why a scroll was once a roll of writing. The "-able" ending traces back through Old French "-able" to Latin "-ābilis" and "-bilis," which marked something that could be done or undergone. Scrollable is a modern formation, built on the noun "scroll" once that noun had taken on its screen sense. Its ancestry therefore reaches from paper rolls to computer displays, with the suffix doing the same job it has done since Latin: turning a verb or noun into a description of possibility.

Synonyms: navigable, movable, slideable, slidable

Antonyms: fixed, static, non-scrollable, immovable