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.

Life existed at a scale smaller than the eye could see.

By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

Besides, the bathroom scale had reported a two-pound drop that morning.

In this way the scale can be viewed by a microscope of much higher magnifying power than can be employed for the photographed spectrum.

The teeth enable the climber to scale a vertical wall by holding to the ice while pulling yourself upward.

Like a TV star that doesn't scale back his expenses after his show is cancelled, these benefits expand, not contract, during periods of economic decline, for two main reasons.

Kiki gave him a fiery look but moved to the nearest tree.  Kris watched him scale the large tree and disappear beyond the canopy of leaves.

With a power of 460 the scale was a quarter of an inch for every second.

Adopting the centigrade scale, this gives 1390.846 foot-pounds.

Cynthia, in her infinite wisdom, arranged a generous monetary scale of chores-for-bucks that seemed to take care of the problem.

Laws to secure this object have been passed, but funds are lacking for their execution on a sufficiently large scale.

In the case of general maps on a smaller scale, the orographic features must be generalized by a skilful draughtsman and artist.

The preparations were made on an unprecedented scale.

Farming will be done on such a scale that thousands of experiments can be happening at any one time, putting a tiny fraction of the produce at risk.

The Temple had already been partially rebuilt by Zedekiah and his companions, but on a scale far inferior to the magnificent building of King Solomon, and Nehemiah devoted his attention to the reconstruction of the walls.

Over time, Amazon has achieved such scale and thus has collected so much data that their suggestions are really useful.

Franz Josef Fjord, with its branch King Oscar Fjord, communicating with Davy's Sound, forms a system of fjords on a similar scale.

They were formerly used on a very large scale in Belgium and South Wales, but the great weight of the moving parts makes it impossible to drive them at the high speed called for by modern requirements, so that centrifugal fans are now generally adopted instead.

If the scale is only slightly out of the perpendicular, a few taps of the hammer will modify any trifling error."

The means for changing the length of the tube and the distance of C from the scale are omitted in the figure.

At low temperatures, on the other hand, they find, using an initial pressure of 'coo mm., that the temperatures on the helium scale are measurably higher than on the hydrogen scale, owing to the more perfectly gaseous condition of helium.

As curule aedile in 58, Scaurus celebrated the public games on a scale of magnificence never seen before.

If they had appealed to the General Assembly they might have received justice, or possibly the separation might have been on a larger scale.

The wall of Herod Agrippa was planned on a grand scale, but its execution was stopped by the Romans, so that it was not completed at the time of the siege of Jerusalem by Titus.

When the trumpets take it up they make a remarkable change at its iith bar, for no other reason than that one of the notes, though perfectly within their scale, and, indeed, already produced by them in the very same bar, is so harmonized as to suggest the freedom of an instrument with a complete scale.

The transition from the 4 Zeller observes that this scale of decreasing perfection is a necessary consequence of the idea of a transcendent deity.

Each monad is an original independent being, and is determined to take this particular point in the universe, this place in the scale of beings.

In his Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte, Herder adopts Leibnitz's idea of a graduated scale of beings, at the same time conceiving of the lower stages as the conditions, of the higher.

The weight of Malpighi's observations therefore fell into the scale of that doctrine which Harvey terms metamorphosis, in contradistinction to epigenesis.

Small fragments, formerly thrown away or used only for varnish, are now utilized on a large scale in the formation of "ambroid" or "pressed amber."

Of the Austrian Netherlands, Count Joseph de Ferrari published a chorographic map on the same scale as Cassini's Carte de la France (1777).

On the other hand, free colonization has been more successful and has been undertaken on a much larger scale.

Again, a like spirit dictated the use of the physical or "natural" methods on a larger scale in the field of prevention.

By the modification of physical conditions on a national scale a prodigious advance was made in the art of preventing disease.

By successive trials two beads, of known density, say di, d 2, are obtained, one of which floats above, and the other below, the test crystal; the distances separating the beads from the crystal are determined by means of a scale placed behind the tube.

His largesses, his distributions of food, his public works, and his spectacles were all on a generous scale.

His forum and its numerous appendages were constructed on a magnificent scale.

It is true that the scale will require to be capable of being read with much greater accuracy than it th of an inch - for that, even in a telescope of 10 ft.

Struve also points out that by attaching a fine scale to the focusing slide of the eye-piece, and knowing the coefficient of expansion of the metal tube, the means would be provided for determining the absolute change of the focal length of the object-glass at any time by the simple process of focusing on a double star.

This, with a knowledge of the temperature of the screw or scale and its coefficient of expansion, would enable the change of screw-value to be determined at any instant.

Thus the scales, the positionand declination-circles, the field of view, the heads of all the micrometer-microscopes, the focusing scale, &c., are read without the aid of a hand-lamp and with an amount of illumination that can be regulated at the observer's pleasure.

It enables the observer to compare any division-interval on one half of either scale with any corresponding interval on the other scale.

By a scale attached to the sliding tube the magnifying power of the eye-piece was deduced, and this combined with the angle of the prism employed gave the angle measured.

The colour of sea-water as it is seen on board ship is most readily determined by comparison with the tints of Forel's xanthometer or colour scale, which consists of a series of glass tubes fixed like the rungs of a ladder in a frame and filled with a mixture of blue and yellow liquids in varying proportions.

The yellow solution is made up of i part of neutral potassium chromate in 199 parts of water, and to give the various degrees of the scale, 1, 2, 3, 4, &c.,% of the yellow solution is mixed with 99, 9 8, 97, 96, &c.,% of the blue in successive tubes.

Observations with the xanthometer have not hitherto been numerous, but it appears that the purest blue (o--I on Forel's scale) is found in the Sargasso Sea, in the North Atlantic and in similarly situated tropical or subtropical regions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The blue of the sea-water as observed by the Forel scale has of course nothing to do with the blue appearance of any distant water surface due to the reflection of a cloudless sky.

These peculiarities of structure may vary very considerably within small areas; and the position of the divisional planes or cleats with reference to the mass, and the proportion of small coal or slack to the larger fragments when the coal is broken up by cutting-tools, are points of great importance in the working of coal on a large scale.

When the mine is free from gas, the furnace may be worked by the return air, but it is better to take fresh air directly from the downcast by a scale, or split, from the main current.

When acetylene was first introduced on a commercial scale grave fears were entertained as to its safety, it being represented that it had the power of combining with certain metals, more especially copper and silver, to form acetylides of a highly explosive character, and that even with coal gas, which contains less than i %, such copper compounds had been known to be formed in cases where the gas-distributing mains were composed of copper, and that accidents had happened from this cause.