scale

About 77.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. noun An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

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

3. noun Size; scope.

   There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

4. noun The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

   This map uses a scale of 1:10.

5. noun A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6. noun A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. noun A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

   the decimal scale, the binary scale

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

Similar words

weighing machine descale plate surmount scale leaf scurf musical scale shell graduated table ordered series

Often followed by

of and is in for to the was as

Word family

scaled scaleless scales scaling