n A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
v (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
v (intransitive|computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
n Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
n A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.