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- English Word Scale Definition Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
- English Word Scale Definition A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
- English Word Scale Definition A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
- English Word Scale Definition A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
- English Word Scale Definition The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
- English Word Scale Definition Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
- English Word Scale Definition Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.
- English Word Scale Definition To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
- English Word Scale Definition To lead up by steps; to ascend.
- English Word Scale-winged Definition Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
- English Word Scaleback Definition Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
- English Word Scalebeam Definition The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
- English Word Scalebeam Definition A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
- English Word Scaleboard Definition A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
- English Word Scaleboard Definition A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.
- English Word Scaled Definition of Scale
- English Word Scaled Definition Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
- English Word Scaled Definition Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
- English Word Scaled Definition Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
- English Word Scaleless Definition Destitute of scales.
- English Word Scalene Definition Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.
- English Word Scalene Definition Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
- English Word Scalene Definition Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
- English Word Scalene Definition Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.
- English Word Scalene Definition A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
- English Word Scalenohedral Definition Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.
- English Word Scalenohedron Definition A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
- English Word Scaler Definition One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
- English Word Scaliness Definition The state of being scaly; roughness.
- English Word Scaling Definition of Scale