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scale up

scale up verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale, up.

Verb

scale up (third-person singular simple present scales up, present participle scaling up, simple past and past participle scaled up)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale, up.
    Antonyms:
    scale down
  2. To increase the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
    • Near-synonym: magnify
    Synonyms:
    magnify
    Antonyms:
    scale down, shrink
  3. To change a process in order to allow for greater quantities.
    • Near-synonyms: expand, grow
    • Transects can be taken in localised settings and compared to local visual environments, as in this pilot study. But the technique can be scaled up to larger situations by taking multiple transects from multiple locales and combining the data.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12
    Synonyms:
    expand, grow
    Antonyms:
    cut back, scale down

scale up meaning in Tamil

scale up in Tamil

விகிதப் பெருக்கம்

Synonyms of scale up

Antonyms

Forms of scale up

third-person singular presentscales up
present participlescaling up
past participlescaled up
pastscaled up

Questions about scale up

What does scale up mean?
Scale up means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale, up.
What is scale up in Tamil?
Scale up in Tamil is விகிதப் பெருக்கம். See Scale up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scale up?
Scale up is a verb.
What is the past tense of scale up?
The past tense of scale up is scaled up.

Words near scale up in the dictionary

  1. scale pan
  2. scale ruler
  3. scale rulers
  4. scale tree
  5. scale trees
  6. scale up
  7. scale worm
  8. scale worms
  9. scale-down
  10. scale-downs
  11. scale-pan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scale up (page history and authors); scale up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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