A pricing scheme for a product or service where a price range is set and the customer is charged based on where their financial resources fall within the range. / A slide rule.

plural of sliding scale

plural of ordinal scale

(idiomatic) To decide or determine a balanced situation.

(computing) To scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.

A scale of the hardness of minerals based on their ability to scratch one another

simple past tense and past participle of scale back

To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scale back

The large size or amount characteristic of industrial processes. / (colloquial, often attributive) Largeness.