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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.

Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

To climb to the top of.

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

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

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

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

To remove the scales of.

Example: Please scale that fish for dinner.

To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

Example: The dry weather is making my skin scale.

To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

Example: 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.

Covered with scales or scale-like structures.

Without scales, or with the scales removed.

Example: scaled herring