SCALE
/skeɪl/
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Scrabble
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WWF
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Definition
/skeɪl/
noun
- A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.“Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.”
- Size; scope.“The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.”
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.“This map uses a scale of 1:10.”
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
verb
- 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.“We should scale that up by a factor of 10.”
- To climb to the top of.“Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.“That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.”
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Source: Wiktionary
