scale-up

noun

ˈskāl-ˌəp 

: an increase according to a fixed ratio

Examples of scale-up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Circulose’s latest commercialization strategy shifts at least some of the scale-up burden toward the companies that ultimately want the fiber. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026

Voya plans to use the new funding for further technology development and initial deployments in 2027, followed by manufacturing scale-up in 2028. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026

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

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