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Original entry ↗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. · To climb to the top of. · To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. · To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
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