scaler
Americannoun
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a person or thing that scales.
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Also called scaling circuit. Also called counter. Electronics. an electronic circuit devised to give a single pulse as output after a certain number of input pulses.
noun
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a person or thing that scales
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Also called: counter. scaling circuit. an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
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Origin of scaler
Example Sentences
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A dental scaler, that hook-ended metal tool a dentist uses to chip away plaque, makes the exact same sound against a stegosaurus femur that it does on a human tooth.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022
As I lay in the dentist’s chair while the hygienist scraped each tooth with a steel scaler, I wept, silently and irrepressibly, under a pair of oversized goggles.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Barred access to my nerves by anesthetics, the scrape of the scaler found acoustic paths up the sides of my head.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021
At the defense, five professors prodded her with questions in the manner of a dental scaler scraping away plaque—an excavation that Chuang seemed to enjoy in proportion.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
An instant later, across the open space where the scaler had stood, with rifle a-trail, the Indian leaped in pursuit.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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