1
: one that scales
2
: a dental instrument for removing tartar from teeth
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This is driven by higher prices hyper scalers are willing to pay, higher margins for the manufacturers and more importantly higher volumes.
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Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Some of the present hyper-scalers may have collapsed and burned, leaving investors bereft.
—Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 13 May 2026
The photos, which are available today in archives shared via JSTOR by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), show an all-women team of burners, welders, and scalers at work on the cargo ship in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
The second wave will go to super scalers like Microsoft, Google, Oracle and other large companies that have the ability to broadly offer connectivity to compute.
—Robert Smith, Ceo Of Vista Equity Partners, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Some of the present hyper-scalers may have collapsed and burned, leaving investors bereft.
—Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 13 May 2026
The photos, which are available today in archives shared via JSTOR by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), show an all-women team of burners, welders, and scalers at work on the cargo ship in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
The second wave will go to super scalers like Microsoft, Google, Oracle and other large companies that have the ability to broadly offer connectivity to compute.
—Robert Smith, Ceo Of Vista Equity Partners, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Scaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scaler. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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scaler
noun
scal·er
ˈskā-lər 
: any of various dental instruments for removing tartar from teeth
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