scaling
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
scaling
- present participle and gerund of scale
Noun edit
scaling (countable and uncountable, plural scalings)
- 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 […]
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
- (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.