Crossword clues for scaling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaling \Scal"ing\ (sk[=a]l"[i^]ng), a.
Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
Scale \Scale\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaling.] To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
Scaling his present bearing with his past.
--Shak.
To scale a debt, wages, etc. or To scale down a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The removing of the scales of fish 2 The formation of a layer of scale on a surface 3 The removal of a layer of scale from a surface 4 The measurement of dimensions using a scale 5 (context mathematics physics English) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantity vb. (present participle of scale English)
WordNet
n. the act of arranging in a graduated series [syn: grading]
act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
ascent by or as if by a ladder
Wikipedia
Scaling may refer to:
- Scaling (geometry), a linear transformation that enlarges or diminishes objects
- Reduced scales of semiconductor device fabrication processes (the ability of a technology to scale to a smaller process)
- Scalability, a computer's or network's ability to function as the number of users increases.
- Scaling, North Yorkshire, England
- Scaling law, a law that describes the scale invariance found in many natural phenomena
- Image scaling, the resizing of an image
- The scaling of critical exponents in physics, such as Widom scaling, or scaling of the renormalization group
- Scale invariance
- Fouling, i.e., formation of a deposit layer (scale) on a solid surface, e.g., in a boiler; in particular, a kind of micro fouling as crystallization of salts
- Tooth scaling, in dentistry, the removal of plaque and calculus
- Scaling along the Z axis, a technique used in computer graphics for a pseudo-3D effect.
- Card-throwing, known in magic circles as scaling.
Scaling may also be used for:
- Climbing
- Multidimensional scaling
- Scale (disambiguation)
In Euclidean geometry, uniform scaling (or isotropic scaling) is a linear transformation that enlarges (increases) or shrinks (diminishes) objects by a scale factor that is the same in all directions. The result of uniform scaling is similar (in the geometric sense) to the original. A scale factor of 1 is normally allowed, so that congruent shapes are also classed as similar. Uniform scaling happens, for example, when enlarging or reducing a photograph, or when creating a scale model of a building, car, airplane, etc.
More general is scaling with a separate scale factor for each axis direction. Non-uniform scaling ( anisotropic scaling) is obtained when at least one of the scaling factors is different from the others; a special case is directional scaling or stretching (in one direction). Non-uniform scaling changes the shape of the object; e.g. a square may change into a rectangle, or into a parallelogram if the sides of the square are not parallel to the scaling axes (the angles between lines parallel to the axes are preserved, but not all angles). It occurs, for example, when a faraway billboard is viewed from an oblique angle, or when the shadow of a flat object falls on a surface that is not parallel to it.
When the scale factor is larger than 1, (uniform or non-uniform) scaling is sometimes also called dilation or enlargement. When the scale factor is a positive number smaller than 1, scaling is sometimes also called contraction.
In the most general sense, a scaling includes the case in which the directions of scaling are not perpendicular. It also includes the case in which one or more scale factors are equal to zero ( projection), and the case of one or more negative scale factors (a directional scaling by -1 is equivalent to a reflection).
Scaling is a linear transformation, and a special case of homothetic transformation. In most cases, the homothetic transformations are non-linear transformations.
Usage examples of "scaling".
Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.
In simple physical systems the rules of scaling are understood, but even in complex inorganic situations like meteorology or aerodynamics, simple by the standard of biology, extrapolations are not easy.
He heard the Prince of Barrow through, hummed a line of some obscure monody, his patched eyebrows scaling his brow, then disappeared without excuse.
Allegro breaks out in the major key, an Allegro full of passion and delirium, deaf to the warnings of Heaven, regardless of remorse, enraptured of pleasure, madly inconstant and daring, rapid and impetuous as a torrent, flashing and swift as a sword, overleaping all obstacles, scaling balconies, and bewildering the alguazils.
Even Rabelais, who played with the Promethean myth of a usurping man capable of scaling Olympus, nevertheless ended his wise book with a parodistic portrayal of the mystery of human apotheosis in the guise of a descent into a wine cave.
According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.
His expression was as simple as resentment without understanding can be: now like plesiosaurus laboring all four limbs for the paddles they were, lifting a small head to see pterodactyl raise its absurd body on more absurd wings and with cumbrous scaling gain the sky, a ridiculous place to be, certainly, but for that moment he watched, disconcerting to plesiosaurus, to whom no such extravagance had ever occurred and who, by no feat of skill or imagination, could hope to accomplish it now.
Scaling having unearthed from the recesses of a cupboard a pack of somewhat greasy playing cards the beleaguered travellers were not restricted to spillikins or paper games, but embarked on several desperate gambling ventures, using dried peas for counters, and managing the cards and the bets of all the imaginary persons created by them to make up the correct number of gamesters.
I had discovered it when I was still a child, a way of scaling the stairless stones up to the remnants of a belfry high up above the town.
According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.
The dogs began by jumping over boards two and a half feet high, and slats were nailed to higher boards until the dogs were hitting the boards at about six feet and scaling the remainder of the wall.
These ratios are intrinsically pitch translation invariant, so the significance of consonant ratios explains both how pitch translation invariance is achieved, and also why it exists as a precise frequency scaling.
In a very analogous manner, comparisons of ratios between pairs of time durations are required to achieve time scaling invariant perception of rhythm.
Following a similar methodology as for pitch translation invariance, play different rhythms at different tempos, and look for cortical maps whose response is time scaling invariant.
For minor skin ailments, scalp eruptions, eczema, acne, scaling of the skin and allied conditions.