: an increase according to a fixed ratio

Examples of scale-up in a Sentence

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Fluxnium will use the funding for technology development, pilot testing, and scale-up. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026 The company recently hired chemist and materials specialist Beinn Muir as scale-up lead to develop its roll-to-roll process and manufacturing partnerships. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026 Agentic workloads, with their concurrency and mixed access patterns, hit the limits of scale-up architectures faster than almost any other production use case. — Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for scale-up

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of scale-up was in 1945

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“Scale-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scale-up. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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