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- DictionaryScale/skāl/
noun
- 1. a graduated range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading something: "company employees have hit the top of their pay scales"
- 2. the relative size or extent of something: "no one foresaw the scale of the disaster"
verb
- 1. climb up or over (something high and steep): "thieves scaled an 8-foot fence"
- 2. represent in proportional dimensions; reduce or increase in size according to a common scale.
The meaning of SCALE is an instrument or machine for weighing. How to use scale in a sentence.
SCALE definition: 1. a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something: 2. the…. Learn more.
A scale is a series that climbs up or down. Think of scaling, or climbing, a mountain; a musical scale: do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do; or a scale you weigh yourself on––it counts up the pounds one after another after another.
noun. a sequence of marks either at regular intervals or else representing equal steps, used as a reference in making measurements. a measuring instrument having such a scale. the ratio between the size of something real and that of a model or representation of it.
Definition of scale noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A scale is a set of levels or numbers which are used in a particular system of measuring things or are used when comparing things. ...an earthquake measuring five-point-five on the Richter scale. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.
SCALE definition: 1. the size or level of something: 2. A large-/small-scale event or activity is large/small in…. Learn more.
Britannica Dictionary definition of SCALE. 1. [count] : a series of musical notes that go up or down in pitch. the C-minor scale. a major scale. 2. [count] : a line on a map or chart that shows a specific unit of measure (such as an inch) used to represent a larger unit (such as a mile) : the relationship between the distances on a map and the ...
1. An ordered system of numbering or indexing that is used as a reference standard in measurement, in which each number corresponds to some physical quantity. Some scales, such as temperature scales, have equal intervals; other scales, such as the Richter scale, are arranged as a geometric progression. 2.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Measurement, Music, Biology, Maths scale1 /skeɪl/ S2 W2 noun 1 size/level [ singular, uncountable] the size or level of something, or the amount that something is happening scale of We had underestimated the scale of the problem. on a large/small/grand etc scale There has been h...
