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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"

verb
  1. 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. 2

    To climb to the top of.

    "Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."

  3. 3

    To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

    "That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."

  4. 4

    To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

verb
  1. 1

    To remove the scales of.

    "Please scale that fish for dinner."

  2. 2

    To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

    "The dry weather is making my skin scale."

  3. 3

    To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

    "to scale the inside of a boiler"

  4. 4

    To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

adjective
  1. 1

    Covered with scales or scale-like structures.

  2. 2

    Without scales, or with the scales removed.

    "scaled herring"

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