scaling

Meanings

1. 1
   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.
2. 2
   verb To climb to the top of.
3. 3
   verb To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
4. 4
   verb To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
5. 5
   verb To remove the scales of.
6. 6
   verb To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
7. 7
   verb To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
8. 8
   verb To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
9. 9
   verb To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
10. 10
    verb To scatter; to spread.
11. 11
    verb To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
12. 12
    noun The removing of the scales of fish.
13. 13
    noun The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
14. 14
    noun The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
15. 15
    noun The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
16. 16
    noun The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
17. 17
    noun The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
18. 18
    noun The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.