scale-up

noun

ˈskāl-ˌəp 

: an increase according to a fixed ratio

Examples of scale-up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2025, the company introduced NVLink Fusion, a program that allows hyperscalers and cloud providers to build custom AI systems around Nvidia’s scale-up fabric. — IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026

The company plans to use this phase as the basis for rapid scale-up through industrial partnerships and international market expansion. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026

Pushing through the startup phase of a business to achieve true scale-up status is hard. — Emma Westley, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

Copper remains the go-to material for scale-up connections. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 6 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scale-up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup