Scale
51scale — 1. noun /ˈskeɪl/ a) An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement. Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10. b) Size; scope. The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale. See Also …
52scale — 1. A standardized test for measuring psychological, personality, or behavioral characteristics. SEE ALSO: score, test. 2. SYN: squama. 3. A small thin plate of horny epithelium, resembling a fish s., cast off from the skin …
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54scale — A ratio (proportion) used in determining the dimensional relationship (analogy) between a representation to that which it represents (its actual size), as in maps, architectural plans, and models. This is often expressed numerically as two… …
55scale — 1) a small, stiff, typically plate like body in the skin of fishes, serving to protect, colour, and support the body. May be modified into spines, tubercles, bony plates, an exoskeleton, reduced or even lost. Phylogenetically absent in Amphioxi… …
56scale — The ratio between a distance on a map, a photograph, or a chart and the corresponding ground distance. The scale is represented by a representative fraction (e.g., 1/500,000, 1 in 500,000, or 1:5,000,000), by a plain statement (e.g., “1 in to a… …
57scale — The ratio or fraction between the distance on a map, chart, or photograph and the corresponding distance on the surface of the Earth. See also conversion scale; graphic scale; photographic scale; principal scale …
58scale — English has three separate words scale. The oldest, ‘pan of a balance’ [13], was borrowed from Old Norse skál ‘bowl, drinking cup’ (ancestor of Swedish skåal, from which English gets the toast skol [16]). This was descended from a Germanic base… …
59scale — /skeɪl/ noun a system which is graded into various levels ♦ scale of charges or scale of prices a list showing various prices ■ verb ♦ to scale down to lower in proportion ♦ to scale up to increase in proportion …
60scale — /skeɪl/ noun 1. a system which is graded into various levels ♦ scale of charges or scale of prices a list showing various prices ♦ scale of salaries a list of salaries showing different levels of pay in different jobs in the same company 2. ♦ to… …
