scales up
Increases in magnitude
Scales up means to increase in size, scope, or capacity.
A business scales up production to meet demand.
A pilot project scales up to serve more users.
The phrase implies proportional growth—expanding something while maintaining its essential structure: We need to scale up our operations before the holiday rush.
- ramps upIncreases activity or intensity
- escalateIncrease in severity
- expansionIncrease in scope
- cloud computingInternet-delivered digital infrastructure
- big dataEnormous datasets analyzed computationally
carrying capacity · network effects · growth · goes viral · data centers · server farms · optimization · load balancing · resource allocation · automation tools · market penetration · global reach · metabolism · operational efficiency · business development · urbanization · capacity planning · throughput
scales upscales down
Reduces in proportion
downsizes · shrinks · reduces · diminishes · contracts
scales updownsizes
Reduces size or scope
scales down · winds down · contracts · cuts back · downscales
scales upscales back
Reduces in size/scope
tones down · dials back · pulls back · tapers off · throttles down
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