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say it: SKAY-lur
scalar is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to a musical scale". It is pronounced /ˈskeɪlɚ/ — SKAY-lur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to a musical scale
“he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar”
of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude
“scalar quantity”
a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scalar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.