as in measuring
to find out the size, extent, or amount of
scaled the logs to get a rough idea of the amount of usable lumber they were likely to yield
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Recent Examples of scaling
The video was taken in November 2024 when members of the Environmental Military Police saw thousands of catfish scaling up the waterfall's slippery rocks, according to Storyful.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Consumers are scaling back on eating out, but are still willing to shell out for sit-down restaurants as the recent stellar performance for some brands indicates.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
Managing campaigns across individual publishers presents major challenges when scaling.
—Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, Chinese robotics companies are also scaling production at an unprecedented rate.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
Post-training improvements don’t seem to be strengthening models as thoroughly as scaling once did.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
However, over the last decade, multi-location brands have realized that scaling these efforts with small teams or overburdening local managers isn't sustainable.
—Afif Khoury, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Recommendations include scaling back protection for foreign leaders during peak election season and exploring the possibility of moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Other foreign carmakers are scaling back their operations in China.
—Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 9 Dec. 2024
Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Consumers are scaling back on eating out, but are still willing to shell out for sit-down restaurants as the recent stellar performance for some brands indicates.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
Managing campaigns across individual publishers presents major challenges when scaling.
—Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, Chinese robotics companies are also scaling production at an unprecedented rate.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
Post-training improvements don’t seem to be strengthening models as thoroughly as scaling once did.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
However, over the last decade, multi-location brands have realized that scaling these efforts with small teams or overburdening local managers isn't sustainable.
—Afif Khoury, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Recommendations include scaling back protection for foreign leaders during peak election season and exploring the possibility of moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Other foreign carmakers are scaling back their operations in China.
—Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 9 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaling
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The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) proved its precision in measuring the aftermath of gold ion collisions.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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The star, classified as IRAS 04302+2247, or IRAS 04302, is a protostar, with its disk measuring at around 40 billion miles (65 billion km) wide.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Aug. 2025
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The price-to-book ratio remains a reasonable proxy for gauging Berkshire’s intrinsic value.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Scaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaling. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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