Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCALE

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Definitions of SCALE

1. Size; scope.
2. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
3. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
4. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
5. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
6. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
7. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
8. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
9. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
10. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
11. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
12. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
13. Limescale.
14. A scale insect.
15. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
16. A device to measure mass or weight.
17. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
18. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
19. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
20. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
21. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
22. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
23. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
24. (transitive) To remove the scales of.
25. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
26. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
27. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
28. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
29. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
30. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
31. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

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Examples of Using SCALE in a Sentence

• It is measured on a scale from 0 (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (corresponding to a body that reflects all incident radiation).
• It is a continuous scale of time, without leap seconds, and it is the principal realisation of Terrestrial Time (with a fixed offset of epoch).
• Absolute zero is the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale; a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value.
• Aeon can also refer to the four aeons on the geologic time scale that make up the Earth's history, the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and the current aeon, Phanerozoic.
• By hypothetically placing all objects at a standard reference distance from the observer, their luminosities can be directly compared among each other on a magnitude scale.
• He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 proposed (an inverted form of) the Centigrade temperature scale which was later renamed Celsius in his honour.
• He attended the weighing scale during the "Weighing of the Heart", in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead.
• It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length.
• The BMI may be determined first by measuring its components by means of a weighing scale and a stadiometer.
• While a biome can cover small areas, a microbiome is a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space on a much smaller scale.
• It is an extremely reactive element and a strong oxidising agent: among the elements, it has the highest electron affinity and the third-highest electronegativity on the revised Pauling scale, behind only oxygen and fluorine.
• Hydrocyanic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide, or HCN, is a highly volatile liquid that is produced on a large scale industrially.
• Generated collection, a musical scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval around the chromatic circle.
• Carbon dioxide equivalent, a scale of measurement of the "greenhouse effect" of other atmospheric gases.
• For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline.
• In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.
• Debian is the basis for many other distributions, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Tails, Proxmox, Kali Linux, Pardus, TrueNAS SCALE, and Astra Linux.
• The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic.
• a former standard astronomical time scale adopted in 1952 by the IAU, and superseded during the 1970s.
• In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the amount of output produced per unit of time.
• Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt).
• A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), sometimes referred to as a golden spike, is an internationally agreed upon reference point on a stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale.
• The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
• The Mohs scale of mineral hardness defines gypsum as hardness value 2 based on scratch hardness comparison.
• Stating it this way allows the relative toxicity of different substances to be compared and normalizes for the variation in the size of the animals exposed (although toxicity does not always scale simply with body mass).

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