Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electronic circuit that records the aggregate of a specific number of signals that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scales fish; distinctively, a person in the act of scaling, or who makes a business of it: used specifically of the scaling of menhaden.
- noun An instrument resembling a currycomb and usually made of tin, used for removing scales from fish.
- noun An instrument used by dentists in removing tartar from the teeth.
- noun One who scales or measures logs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
electronic circuit thataggregates manysignals into one. - noun An electronic or
computer system thatadjusts thesize of asignal orgraphic tofit on ascreen etc. - noun One who
scales . - noun A tool or device for
scaling fish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now the watchful "scaler" sees to it that the logs are cut with judgment, so as to utilize every foot of saw timber.
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Separately, aside from the persisting tighter supply of 16: 9 panels, supply of components such as scaler ICs has stabilized.
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Smith worked at the Manke mill on Tacoma's Tideflats as a "scaler" from September 2004 to July 2006.
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Smith worked at the Manke mill on Tacoma's Tideflats as a "scaler" from September 2004 to July 2006.
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My favorite fishing knife is a yellow handle Case XX with a thin, pointed blade, hook hone, bottle opener, scaler and hook remover.
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My favorite fishing knife is a yellow handle Case XX with a thin, pointed blade, hook hone, bottle opener, scaler and hook remover.
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The exemplary high scaler was twenty-three-year-old Louis Fagan, a “human pendulum” so dubbed by the Las Vegas Age whose signature feat was to have transferred every member of a tunnel crew around an outcropping on the Arizona cliffside twice a day for three weeks in January 1932.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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It would not be long before the first high scaler lost his life falling from the canyon wall.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The exemplary high scaler was twenty-three-year-old Louis Fagan, a “human pendulum” so dubbed by the Las Vegas Age whose signature feat was to have transferred every member of a tunnel crew around an outcropping on the Arizona cliffside twice a day for three weeks in January 1932.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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A: You can't because a mountain climber is a scaler.
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