scale meaning
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[skeɪl] [-eɪl] 
US WScale
- Scale or scales may refer to:
- NounPLscales
- (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
- Size; scope.
- We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- 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 means of assigning a magnitude.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system.
- the decimal scale; the binary scale
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- 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.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- VerbSGscalesPRscalingPT, PPscaled
- (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.
- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (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.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- As we rise in the scale of forces towards greater subtility, the forces become more important and efficient.
- The match of two finite line segments in 2 dimensions requires 2 translations, 1 rotation, 1 scale transformation; the order is here important, and these operators cannot commutate.
- the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Up to 11 vascular bundles are coplanarly arranged in the middle part of a cone scale.
- Even though no obvious staining was observed in our case, contact with the vapor was still found to perform very faint etching at a submicrometric scale.
- It features the crossover from a prequench to a prethermal state, finally evolving towards a thermal state on increasing length and time scales.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of scale in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "scale" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.