"scale up" meaning in All languages combined

See scale up on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: scales up [present, singular, third-person], scaling up [participle, present], scaled up [participle, past], scaled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Related terms: scalability [noun], scalable [adjective]
    Sense id: en-scale_up-en-verb-MKEygerB Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  2. To increase the size of something whilst maintaining proportion. Translations (increase proportionally): opschalen (Dutch), proportional vergrößern (German), vergrößern (German)
    Sense id: en-scale_up-en-verb-q7EGXhkZ Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of 'increase proportionally': 4 73 23
  3. To change a process in order to allow for greater quantities. Translations (change a process): hochskalieren (German)
    Sense id: en-scale_up-en-verb-2qgSQPPE Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 17 62 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 26 19 55 Disambiguation of 'change a process': 1 0 99

Inflected forms

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