单词 | scaling |
释义 | scalingn.1 1. a. Climbing, mounting; escalade. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > escalade scalinga1513 scale1577 scalado1585 scalade1591 escalade1598 escalado1598 escalading1833 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > climbing or scaling climbing1487 scalinga1513 scansion1654 speel1807 rib riding1920 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxx. f. clii The castynge of Stonys or scalynge of the Wallys, or fyllynge of the Dyches. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 20 In the scaling and assaults of batteries or walles. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 3 He daily walls them with his Providence, against the scaling of the swelling Surges. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Ladder The success of an attack by scaling is infallible, if they mount the 4 sides at once. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 533 The scaling of the walls by the Duke of Savoy's troops. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > scaling-ladder or scaffold scaffoldc1400 scaling ladderc1400 scale1412 scaling1582 scalado1600 scalade1632 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 They clinge thee scalinges too wals. 2. In senses of scale v.3 II.: Measurement or estimation of quantities; graduation (of charges, etc.); the construction of a scale. Also, measurement or grading of attributes; variation of size or scale; the action of a scaler. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement or grading according to scale scalingc1710 graduation1833 calibration1871 the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement or grading according to scale > construction of a scale scaling1878 c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 121 The scaleing hall where their stuffs are all measured. 1807 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. II. 757/3 The plan being laid down, the content of the field may be found by scaling. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scaling,..the process of adjusting sights to the guns on shipboard was formerly so termed. 1877 Michigan Rep. 35 506 The scaling at that mill would appear..to have been very carelessly kept. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 159 Who threatened repudiation of the whole national debt if there should be resistance to such small scaling. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 7/1 The scaling down of the fixed dividend from 7 to 6 per cent. 1929 F. N. Freeman in C. Murchison Found. Experim. Psychol. xviii. 721 The purpose of such scaling may be merely to secure items which are equally spaced in difficulty or it may also be to weigh the pupil's performance in terms of the difficulty of the items which he passes. 1938 Rev. Sci. Instruments 9 221/1 No variations in the scaling factor were found for pulses varying in amplitude by a factor of six. 1949 Nucleonics Feb. 67/2 Several scale-of-2 circuits in tandem provide net scaling factors of 4–8–16–32–64, etc. Other designs, utilizing ‘ring scalers’ or modified scale-of-16 scalers yield decimal scaling ratios (10–100–1000). 1968 L. Fox & D. F. Mayers Computing Methods for Scientists & Engineers v. 89 It is desirable that all rows and columns of [matrix]A, and also of b, should be of reasonable size... This can always be arranged..by appropriate scaling of the rows and columns. 1975 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 22 1580/1 Simple start-stop scaling, count = 8, frequency 53 MHz. 1979 Sci. Amer. July 120/3 One such manifestation of movement into a marginal niche is the scaling down of body size. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † scalingn.2 Obsolete. Some kind of garment. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose slops1481 shipman's hose1540 slop1560 shipman's breek1563 drawers1567 kelsouns1568 scaling1577 scavilones1577 scabilonian1600 calzoons1615 linings1631 swabber-slopsa1658 pantaloon1686 underslops1737 trousers1773 pyjamas1801 Cossacks1820 Turkish trousers1821 hakama1822 salwar1824 slacks1824 sherwal1844 overall1845 bag1853 sack-pants1856 bloomer1862 trouser skirt1883 petticoat trousers1885 mompe1908 step-in1922 bombachas1936 baggies1962 jams1966 palazzo1970 hose- 1577 R. Barnes in J. Raine Injunctions Eccl. Proc. Bishop of Durham (1850) 17 Great britches gascogne hose, scalings, nor any other like monstrous and vnsemely apparell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). scalingn.3 1. a. The action of scale v.2; the removal or peeling off of scales or scale. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or shedding external layer > in scales scaling1591 exfoliation1802 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Escamadura Scaling of fish. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xxv. 141 The skalling and pilling of the face. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 30 The crumbling and scaling of Brick and Stone in Frosts that are extreme. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 553 As the spot [of psoriasis] enlarges..it often becomes very slightly raised above the surface, and the scaling is more marked. b. In technical and manufacturing use. ΚΠ 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 335 The plates..keeping each other also from scaleing, or being beaten..away into Cinders or wast. 1729 W. Rutty Tin-plates in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 633 The scaling will still be more expeditious, if you dissolve a little Sal-armoniack in the Vinegar. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 725 To prevent the copper from scaling. 1881 Coleman Dental Surg. & Pathol. xvi. 294 In the process of scaling, great care should be exercised to remove all fragmentary portions from between the teeth. c. concrete. That which scales off; scale, scales. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin plate or layer > scale > that has come off shell13.. slake1585 flake1591 scaling1651 exfoliation1750 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > a) scraping(s) or shaving(s) shavingc1386 rasurea1400 razing?a1425 scrapings1511 rasing1552 scaling1651 ramentum1658 raments1670 abrasion1684 scrapeage1851 1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 4 To these adde the Caput Mortuum, of Vitriall, and Scaling of Iron. 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 41 The Kealy Soil is such as is plentifully strewed with..a Stone in very small Masses... They have the Name of Keale, Kale, or Scale, for that they seem to have been Scalings of larger Masses. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 534 Scalings of iron vitrified. 1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 143 Thin flakes..of the rock scale off.. and these scalings accumulate all along the foot of the escarpment. 2. Arrangement of scales. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale > arrangement of scaling1721 scutation1852 scutellation1882 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 72 To give my Reader the Satisfaction of observing..different Methods of their Scaling [sc. of serpents]. 1898 Proc. Zool. Soc. 17 May 451 On the upper side of the tail..only a few scattered hairs appear, barely hiding the rather coarse ordinary scales, but as the hair thickens the scaling becomes finer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). scalingn.4 The action of weighing in scales; esp. in Baking and Horse Racing (see scale v.1 1b, 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] peisinga1382 weighing1430 weighta1483 balancing1599 perlibration1623 trutination1633 ponderation1646 libration1657 scaling1841 weighment1878 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > required or suitable weight of rider > weighing scaling1841 weigh-out1886 1841 Guide to Trade, Baker 42 Engaged in pitching the dough, cutting, scaling off [etc.]. 1864 Daily Tel. 9 June The large field anticipated [for the Hunt Cup] rendered it necessary that the business of weighing and scaling should be vigorously pushed forward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2018). scalingadj.1 That forms or sheds scales. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby roinousc1400 furfuraceous1650 scaly1796 crustaceous1801 squamose1822 squamous1829 psoriatic1836 desquamatory1837 desquamative1847 psoriasiform1897 scaling1897 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 219 The gradual appearance of copper-coloured scaling papules. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvii. 583 A ring of scaling epidermis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). scalingadj.2 That scales, in the senses of scale v.3 II. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > that measures or regulates by a scale scaling1937 1937 Rev. Sci. Instruments 8 414/1 The ultimate efficiency..is determined by the resolving power of the first stage of the scaling circuit. 1937 Physical Rev. 51 1027/1 The ultimate efficiency that can be reached is fixed by the resolving power of the scaling down circuit. 1950 Atomics Sept. 255/1 The simplest scaling circuit is the ‘scale of two’. 1961 G. R. Choppin Exper. Nucl. Chem. iii. 43 The scaling system selects every nth pulse to pass on to the mechanical registers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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