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SCALING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ascent by or as if by a ladder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scaling" is a kind of...):

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scaling"):

escalade (an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification))

Derivation:

scale (climb up by means of a ladder)

scale (take by attacking with scaling ladders)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scaling" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scaling"):

scalage (the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension)

Derivation:

scale (size or measure according to a scale)

scale (measure with or as if with scales)

scale (measure by or as if by a scale)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of arranging in a graduated series

Synonyms:

grading; scaling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scaling" is a kind of...):

order; ordering (the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb scale

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 Context examples: 

Although the mechanism of action is not fully understood, topical administration of chloroxine diminishes mitotic activity in the epidermis, thereby reducing excessive scaling associated with dandruff or seborrheic dermatitis of the scalp, including psoriasis and eczema.

(Chloroxine, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare cutaneous disorder of unknown etiology that can present either as an acute condition, with multiple papular lesions which become vesicular and necrotic (pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta) or chronic, with small, scaling papules (pityriasis lichenoides chronica).

(Pityriasis Lichenoides, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found that the abundance of the most dominant species scales with the total number of individuals across 30 orders of magnitude, making it the most expansive scaling law in biology.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)