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powerscaling

powerscaling is the alternative form of power scaling.

powerscaling is the present participle and gerund of powerscale.

Meaning of power scaling

Noun

power scaling (countable and uncountable, plural power scalings)

  1. The act of increasing the output power of a laser without changing the geometry, shape, or principle of operation.
    • Fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers are one of the most promising solid state laser concepts and find widespread applications that require efficient, rugged and compact optical sources. However, powerscaling in conventional stepindex single-mode fibers is restricted.2002, J. Limpert, H. Zellmer, A. Tünnermann, T. Pertsch, F. Lederer, “Suppression of higher order modes in a multimode fiber amplifier using efficient gain-loss-management (GLM)”, in Martin E....
  2. (slang) The practice of assessing the physical power and abilities of a fictional character through a comparison with another character.
    • Let’s talk about the practice of “powerscaling” for a second — a common thought experiment that elevates itself to annoyance and is perhaps symptomatic of a greater evil. […] Powerscaling ignores every way characters can interact with each other to boil it down to physical violence[.]2022 September 28, Saarthak Johri, “‘Reach’ culture: The online malaise on media literacy”, in The Michigan Daily

Meaning of powerscale

Verb

powerscale (third-person singular simple present powerscales, present participle powerscaling, simple past and past participle powerscaled)

  1. (slang, transitive) To assess (a fictional character) by power scaling.
    • Of course, with so many iconic protagonists, fans often discuss which of the Jojos is the strongest. While it's easy to dismiss Jonathan and Joseph from the competition, it's hard to come to an answer when comparing their successors. Rather than simply "powerscaling" their Stands, however, one may...2024 June 8, Lauren Kells, “JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Settled the Strongest Jojo Debate With One Brutal Villain Defeat”, in Screen Rant

Forms of powerscaling

pluralpowerscalings

Questions about powerscaling

What is powerscaling the alternative form of?
Powerscaling is the alternative form of power scaling.

Words near powerscaling in the dictionary

  1. powers on
  2. powers that be
  3. powers up
  4. powers-that-be
  5. powerscale
  6. powerscaling
  7. powerset
  8. powersets
  9. powersharing
  10. powershift
  11. powershifted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: powerscaling (page history and authors); power scaling (page history and authors); powerscale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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