scaler

/skey-ler/US // ˈskeɪ lər //UK // (ˈskeɪlə) //

缩放器,缩放仪,鳞片,秤砣

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person or thing that scales.
- : Also called counter, scaling circuit .Electronics. an electronic circuit devised to give a single pulse as output after a certain number of input pulses.

"Thirteen thousand two hundred and forty," announced the scaler at last.
And then suppose the scaler's sheets credit you with only a little over the four hundred thousand!
He could do nothing without the report; and it was too far out to send for another scaler, even if Daly would have given him one.
In silence he thrust his beechwood tablets into his pocket, and picked his pliable scaler's rule from the corner.
An' it's partly the bosses, an' the cook, an' the scaler, an' the clerk.