1
: one that scales
2
: a dental instrument for removing tartar from teeth
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Competitive pressures are therefore forcing even the giant hyper-scalers to seek alternative sources of outside capital in the form of debt to supplement their internal funds.
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Fortune, 2 June 2026
There's also an advanced section with deeper options, including different scalers.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
This is driven by higher prices hyper scalers are willing to pay, higher margins for the manufacturers and more importantly higher volumes.
—Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 27 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
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Fortune, 2 June 2026
There's also an advanced section with deeper options, including different scalers.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
This is driven by higher prices hyper scalers are willing to pay, higher margins for the manufacturers and more importantly higher volumes.
—Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 27 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
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scaler
noun
scal·er
ˈskā-lər 
: any of various dental instruments for removing tartar from teeth
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