Noun: scale
| Singular | scale |
| Plural | scales |
Sample Sentences
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Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
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The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
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There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
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We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. [2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:]
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This map uses a scale of 1:10.
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Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:]
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the decimal scale, the binary scale
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There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion. [1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:]
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City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history. [2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport:]
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Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
Nouns inflected like scale
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala. See: Middle English Nouns '
scale', Latin Nouns '
scāla'.
Verbs referencing "scale"
Swedish Nouns
skala.