scaled
Because it is a word with a single syllable, scaled is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofscaled
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
Example: "We should scale that up by a factor of 10."
- To climb to the top of.
Example: "Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
Example: "That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To remove the scales of.
Synonyms: descale
Example: "Please scale that fish for dinner."
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
Example: "The dry weather is making my skin scale."
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
Example: "to scale the inside of a boiler"
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
Example: "Some sandstone scales by exposure."
- To scatter; to spread.
- To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
- Without scales, or with the scales removed.
Example: "scaled herring"
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