scaling

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scaling

  1. present participle and gerund of scale

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scaling (countable and uncountable, plural scalings)

  1. The act of one who scales or climbs.
    • 1909, Swami Rama Tirtha, In Woods of God-realization: The pole star within, 7th edition:
      The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids []
  2. The removing of the scales of fish.
  3. The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
  4. The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
  5. The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
  6. The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
  7. (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
  8. The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.

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