scale up

See also: scaleup

English

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.

   Antonym: scale down

   Hypernym: rescale

2. To increase the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.

   Antonyms: scale down, shrink

   Hypernym: rescale

   Near-synonym: magnify

3. To change a process in order to allow for greater quantities.

   Antonyms: cut back, scale down

   Hypernym: rescale

   Near-synonyms: expand, grow

   • 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:

     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.

Related terms

• scalability (noun)
• scalable (adj)

 

Translations

increase proportionally

• Dutch: opschalen (nl)
• German: proportional vergrößern, vergrößern (de)

change a process

• German: hochskalieren, auf + qualifier indicating large size + Maßstäbe + übertragen

Anagrams

• capsule, laces up, specula, upscale