A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. Example: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
Size; scope. Example: The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. Example: This map uses a scale of 1:10.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix. Example: the decimal scale; the binary scale
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union. Example: Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
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. Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
To climb to the top of. Example: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. Example: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
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.
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
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.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
Limescale.
A scale insect.
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
To remove the scales of. Example: Please scale that fish for dinner.
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. Example: The dry weather is making my skin scale.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale. Example: to scale the inside of a boiler
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae. Example: Some sandstone scales by exposure.
To scatter; to spread.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
A device to measure mass or weight. Example: After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
A device for measuring weight. Example: The butcher put the sausages on the scales.
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