scaling

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/

verb

1
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.”
2
To climb to the top of.
“Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”
3
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
“That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.”
4
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

1
To remove the scales of.
“Please scale that fish for dinner.”
2
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
“The dry weather is making my skin scale.”
3
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
“to scale the inside of a boiler”
4
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
5
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
“Some sandstone scales by exposure.”
6
To scatter; to spread.
7
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

1
The removing of the scales of fish.
2
The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
3
The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
4
The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
5
The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
6
The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
7
The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.

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