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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
scaler is a noun meaning "an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually". It carries one recorded sense.
an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually
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 scaler come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.