SCALING

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.

To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

Example: "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.