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Scaled
/skeɪld/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Scaled"
- 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.
- 1
Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
- 2
Without scales, or with the scales removed.
"scaled herring"
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