Usually means: Measurement system for size, weight.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scale, scale, scale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scale, scale, scale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scale, scale: Wordnik
  7. scale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Scale, Scale, Scale, Scale: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. scale: Wiktionary
  10. scale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scale: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scale: Dictionary.com
  14. scale (n1.), scale (n2.), scale (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SCALE, Scale (Lepidopteran anatomy), Scale (album), Scale (analytical tool), Scale (anatomy), Scale (chemistry), Scale (dermatology), Scale (descriptive set theory), Scale (disambiguation), Scale (insect anatomy), Scale (instrument), Scale (map), Scale (measurement), Scale (measuring), Scale (music), Scale (ratio), Scale (social sciences), Scale (spatial), Scale (string instruments), Scale (zoology), Scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scale: Rhymezone
  20. scale, scale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scale: Free Dictionary
  23. scale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scale, scale (photographic): Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. scale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. scale: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  3. Scale: Health & Beauty Glossary
  4. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  5. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  6. Scale: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  7. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  10. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Scale: bizterms.net
  5. Scale: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  8. scale: Legal dictionary
  9. scale: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scale (botany), Scale (computing), Scale (map), Scale (order of magnitude), Scale (string instruments), scale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. scale: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scale: Castle Terms
  2. SCALE: Acronym Finder
  3. scale: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Scale: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. scale: Rhododendron Glossary
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  9. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale, scale, scale, scale, scale, scale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scale: The Folk File
  3. The scale, scale: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  2. Scale: Sports Definitions

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: Electronics
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Scale: Beauty & Health Glossary
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  10. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  11. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  12. SCALE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
noun:  An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
noun:  Size; scope.
noun:  The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
noun:  A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
noun:  (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
noun:  A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
noun:  Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
noun:  A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To climb to the top of.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
verb:  (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
noun:  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.
noun:  A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
noun:  A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
noun:  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.
noun:  (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
noun:  Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
noun:  (uncountable) Limescale.
noun:  A scale insect.
noun:  The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
noun:  (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the scales of.
verb:  (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
verb:  (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
verb:  (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
verb:  (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
verb:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
verb:  (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
noun:  A device to measure mass or weight.
noun:  Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

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