to scale
- verb
- /skeɪl/
- Increasingly, federal and nonprofit grantmakers are seeking to scale up programs that have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness.
- scale up production
- scale the model
- scale down a system
You have to shrink all these elements down so that you can scale the device up.
- You have to shrink all these elements down so that you can scale the device up.
- Maybe I need to learn how to scale that back a little bit.
- It's just right now we said let's scale more data, more compute.
- Because as you scale, your ROA should drop.
- So once paid traffic gets scaled, I mean, who knows?
Examples
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The designer plans to scale the model to accurately represent the final product's dimensions.
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Barobo was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant to scale up iMobot for commercial deployment.
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So just try and scale back if required.
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But we do want to scale in Y, so we'll scale by two.
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And it does scale in the right way.
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Had to scale it down.
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We had real budget challenges, so we had to figure out how to scale it back.
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I have no desire to scale up or get bigger.
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So Obama decided to scale back the guest list for his party.
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We also have a deeper understanding of what it takes to scale programs and how to support organizations to grow.
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Synonyms
To change something so it fits better
To change the size of something, for example a picture or window, to make it fit better
To arrange parts so they look balanced
Make something larger or smaller so it fits
Change the size or units of something so it fits new measurements
Idioms
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Compounds
- Archaic
A scale that measures how strong an earthquake is from the waves recorded by machines
A schedule that shows how much people are paid for different jobs or experience levels
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A set of seven notes with whole steps except half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth
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A set of notes ordered from low to high that form a basic pattern for melodies
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A balance with a long bar that turns and uses a sliding weight to measure how heavy something is
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A pattern of seven notes that makes the familiar major and minor sounds
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A musical scale that sounds sad because some notes are lower than in a major scale
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A system for measuring how hot something is using units like Celsius and Fahrenheit
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A small brown insect that lives on plants, drinks their juice and weakens them
A temperature scale where 0 degrees is water's freezing and 100 degrees its boiling
- Archaic
A way to measure temperature where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees
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A scale that measures how high sea waves are, from 0 calm to 9 very large
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A scale of numbers that shows wave height at sea from 0 calm to 9 very high
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A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero, with zero as the lowest possible temperature
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A small insect with a hard wax covering that sticks to leaves and stems
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A way of showing time in a simulation so events take longer than in real life
A scale for measuring temperature where water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees
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A way of running a simulation where time moves faster than real life
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A common eight-note pattern in Western music with small steps between third and fourth and seventh and eighth
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A scale that measures how strong an earthquake feels and how much damage it causes
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A set of notes used in Western music that makes a piece sound sad
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A scale that compares how easily minerals scratch each other, from soft talc to hard diamond
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A musical scale with fewer than seven notes that leaves out some notes from the usual scale
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A scale that shows how high sea waves and long smooth waves are
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A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero and uses the same size degree as Celsius
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A musical scale of eight notes that uses whole and half steps one after the other
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A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero and uses degrees the same size as Fahrenheit
- Archaic
A temperature scale where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees
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A number from 0 to 14 that shows how acidic or basic a liquid is, with 7 neutral
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Partly refined paraffin wax made when oil is processed and used in industry
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A system that gives numbers or levels to show how much of something there is
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A way used in models to stretch time so events look slower than real life
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A small insect with a soft, waxy covering that lives on plant stems and leaves
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A small tool that measures weight or force by how much a metal coil stretches
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A small extra ruler that slides along a larger ruler to measure very small lengths
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A number scale from zero to twelve used worldwide to show how strong the wind is
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Etymology
Scale (to adjust size or proportion) comes from the idea of a scale as a system of marks or steps (like on a map or ruler), so to scale something is to change its size or proportion to fit those steps.