SCALED
/skeɪld/
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Definition
/skeɪld/
verb
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.“We should scale that up by a factor of 10.”
- To climb to the top of.“Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.“That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.”
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
verb
- To remove the scales of.“Please scale that fish for dinner.”
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.“The dry weather is making my skin scale.”
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.“to scale the inside of a boiler”
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.“Some sandstone scales by exposure.”
adjective
- Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
- Without scales, or with the scales removed.“scaled herring”
Source: Wiktionary
