Definition of "scale"
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An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
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Size; scope.
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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
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A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
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A means of assigning a magnitude.
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A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
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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.
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A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
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A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
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A pine nut of a pinecone.
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The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
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Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
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Limescale.
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A scale insect.
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A device to measure mass or weight.
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Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
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verb:
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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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To climb to the top of.
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To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
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To remove the scales of.
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To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
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