scaling

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.
To scatter; to spread.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

noun

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

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