verb

1. 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.”

2. To climb to the top of.

   “Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”

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

   “That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.”

verb

1. To remove the scales of.

   “Please scale that fish for dinner.”

2. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

   “The dry weather is making my skin scale.”

3. To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

   “to scale the inside of a boiler”

Synonyms: descale

adjective

1. Covered with scales or scale-like structures.

2. Without scales, or with the scales removed.

   “scaled herring”

Synonyms: scaly, squamous, descaled, esquamulose, scaleless