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scalar (adj.)
"resembling a ladder," 1650s, from Latin
scalaris
"of or pertaining to a ladder," from
scalae
(plural) "ladder, steps, flight of steps" (see
scale
(n.2)). Mathematical sense first recorded 1846.
