/ˈskɑlɑ/
OriginBorrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.
- Ladder; sequence.
- Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
- A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
- A surname from Italian.
- A statically-typed multi-paradigm programming language designed to run on the JVM.
“Scala started life in 2001 as a research project at EPFL in Switzerland. It was released publicly in 2004 after an internal release in 2003.”
Formsscalas(plural) · scalae(plural) · Scalas(plural)