scaler

IPA: skˈeɪɫɝ

An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one.
An electronic or computer system that adjusts the size of a signal or graphic to fit on a screen etc.
One who scales.
A tool or device for scaling fish.
(dentistry) A dentistry tool with two hooks.

Examples of "scaler" in Sentences

A: You can't because a mountain climber is a scaler.
It would not be long before the first high scaler lost his life falling from the canyon wall.
Smith worked at the Manke mill on Tacoma's Tideflats as a "scaler" from September 2004 to July 2006.
Now the watchful "scaler" sees to it that the logs are cut with judgment, so as to utilize every foot of saw timber.
Separately, aside from the persisting tighter supply of 16: 9 panels, supply of components such as scaler ICs has stabilized.
My favorite fishing knife is a yellow handle Case XX with a thin, pointed blade, hook hone, bottle opener, scaler and hook remover.
The exemplary high scaler was twenty-three-year-old Louis Fagan, a “human pendulum” so dubbed by the Las Vegas Age whose signature feat was to have transferred every member of a tunnel crew around an outcropping on the Arizona cliffside twice a day for three weeks in January 1932.