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▸ 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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surmount,
weighing machine,
plate,
descale,
musical scale,
scurf,
scale leaf,
shell,
graduated table,
ordered series,
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