noun A weighing device An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement Please rate your experience on a scale of 1 to 10 Size or scope This was insanity on an enormous scale The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance This map uses a scale of 1:10 A means of assigning a magnitude the open-ended richter scale (music) An ascending series of notes spanning an octave Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile The flaky material sloughed off of heated metal scale mail transitive verb to scale To change the size of, maintaining proportion We should scale that up by a factor of 10 To climb Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest to scale To remove the scales of Please scale that fish for dinner intransitive verb to scale (computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors That architecture won't scale to real-world environments to scale To become scaly The dry weather is making my skin scale
