Word Finder - scale

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A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

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An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

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Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

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Size; scope.

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The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.

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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

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This map uses a scale of 1:10.

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A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

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A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

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A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

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the decimal scale; the binary scale

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Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

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A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

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Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.

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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.

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We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

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To climb to the top of.

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Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

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To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

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That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

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To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.