: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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Operational Considerations: Manufacturing And Scaling Scientific products, especially those requiring complex biotechnological processes, demand careful attention to production and scale-up. Linda De Jesus, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 But there’s a scale-up problem: There simply isn’t enough dense wood waste to sequester billions of tons of carbon. Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024 Adobe achieved a 20x scale-up in model training within six months by utilizing AWS services. Chetan Mathur, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 One technology scale-up from Germany called NavVis created a wearable 3D scanner, the NavVis VLX, to record indoor environments in 360º and render them on its digital twin platform called NavVis Ivion. Carolyn Schwaar, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scale-up 

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of scale-up was in 1945

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“Scale-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scale-up. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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