scale

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1. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product. (transitive) · We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
2. To climb to the top of. (transitive) · Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. (intransitive) · That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
4. To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
5. To increase revenues exponentially without proportional increases in costs.
6. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system. (transitive)
7. To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. (transitive) · Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."

He/she/it scales · 过去式 scaled · 过去分词 scaled · -ing形式 scaling