SCALE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scale up mean? 

• SCALE UP (verb)
  The verb SCALE UP has 1 sense:

1. increase proportionally

  Familiarity information: SCALE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase proportionally

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

scale up the model

Hypernyms (to "scale up" is one way to...):

proportion (adjust in size relative to other things)

rescale (establish on a new scale)

"Scale up" entails doing...:

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

scale down (reduce proportionally)

 Context examples 

This means it can’t yet be used to scale up findings to an industrial level.

(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)

An information-theoretic algorithm for reverse engineering of transcriptional networks using microarray data, specifically designed to scale up to the complexity of regulatory networks in mammalian cells, yet general enough to address a wider range of network deconvolution problems, while eliminating the majority of indirect interactions inferred by co-expression methods.

(ARACNE Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)