scaleback
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
scaleback (plural scalebacks)
- (zoology) Any member of numerous species of marine annelids of the Polynoidae family, with two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back.
Etymology 2
Deverbal from scale back.
Noun
scaleback (plural scalebacks)
- An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.
- Synonym: scaledown
- Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scaleback”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)