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单词 scaling
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scalingn.1

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Etymology: < scale v.3
1.
a. Climbing, mounting; escalade.
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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.
b. = scaling ladder n. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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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.
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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

Etymology: Of obscure origin; ? compare scavilones n.
Obsolete.
Some kind of garment.
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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

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1600s skalling.
Etymology: < scale v.2 or scale n.2 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of scale v.2; the removal or peeling off of scales or scale.
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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.
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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.
attributive.1840 De Loude Dentistry 98 The dentist..will have a great number of those scaling instruments.1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 227 Scaling oven (for tin), fourneau à décaper.1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scaling~bar (Steam.), a rod for detaching scale in boilers.
c. concrete. That which scales off; scale, scales.
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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.
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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

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Etymology: < scale v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of weighing in scales; esp. in Baking and Horse Racing (see scale v.1 1b, 3b).
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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

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Etymology: < scale v.2 + -ing suffix2.
That forms or sheds scales.
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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

/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Etymology: < scale v.3 + -ing suffix2.
That scales, in the senses of scale v.3 II.
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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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