Scaling

(biology) The removing of scales from fishes.
(electronics) Counting pulses with a scaler when the pulses occur too fast for direct counting by conventional means.
(engineering) Removing scale (rust or salt) from a metal or other surface.
(graphic arts) Using a scale to measure dimensions in a scale drawing.
(mechanics) Expressing the terms in an equation of motion in powers of nondimensional quantities (such as a Reynolds number), so that terms of significant magnitude under conditions specified in the problem can be identified, and terms of insignificant magnitude can be dropped.
(medicine) root planning
(metallurgy) Forming of a thick layer of metallic oxide on metals at high temperatures. Depositing of solid inorganic solutes from water on a metal surface, such as a cooling tube or boiler.
(mining engineering) Removing loose rocks and coal from the roof, walls, or face after blasting.
(nuclear physics) A property of nuclear collisions whereby the likelihood of a nuclear reaction depends more on the ratio between energy transferred and momentum transferred than on the energy transferred between the colliding particles.

(1) To resize a device, object or system, making it larger or smaller. With regard to increases, "scale vertically" or "scale up" refers to expanding a single machine's capability. To "scale horizontally" or "scale out" refers to adding more machines.

With regard to decreases, the term is often used with cutting-edge chip technologies. For example, "this memory scales with CMOS" means that this memory architecture can take advantage of the advances in CMOS chip fabrication by becoming smaller as well. See upconvert and scalable.

(2) To expand. The term is widely used to refer to systems that easily expand. See scalable and scaler.

(3) To move with. The phrase "the image scales with the window" means that as an on-screen window is dragged by the user to a larger or smaller frame size, the image inside continuously expands or contracts to fit the changing frame.

(4) To change the representation of a quantity in order to bring it into prescribed limits of another range. For example, values such as 1249, 876, 523, -101 and -234 might need to be scaled into a range from -5 to +5.

(5) To designate the position of the decimal point in a fixed or floating point number.

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Process of reducing or enlarging copy or artwork to a desired size for printing.

Local flaking or peeling away of the surface portion of concrete or mortar.

A means of measuring personality traits and attitude on a continuum from one extreme to another; for example, from very introvert through to very extrovert.

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Scaling may refer to:

• Scaling (geometry), a linear transformation that enlarges or diminishes objects
• Scaling (computer network), a network's ability to function as the number of people or computers on the network increases. Related to Scalability
• Scaling, North Yorkshire, England
• Scaling law, which describes the scale invariance found in many natural phenomena
• Image scaling, the resizing of an image
• Tooth scaling, in dentistry, the removal of plaque, calculus, and stains
• The scaling of critical exponents in physics, such as Widom scaling, or scaling of the renormalization group; scale invariance in general
• Scaling (speculative trading), method of trading using certain assumed set of scales as references

Scaling may also be used for:

• Climbing
• A kind of micro fouling as crystallization of salts
• Multidimensional scaling
• Scale
• Scalability

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