Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler..

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Lodicule :: Lodicule (n.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
Intonate :: Intonate (v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..
Seventh :: Seventh (n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..
Alepidote :: Alepidote (a.) Not having scales.
Hardness :: Hardness (n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes..
Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..
Coccus :: Coccus (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti)..
Placoid :: Placoid (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks..
Scale :: Scale (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively..
Mental :: Mental (n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To separate; to scatter.
Perula :: Perula (n.) One of the scales of a leaf bud.
Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale..
Scale :: Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler..
Ophiomorpha :: Ophiomorpha (n. pl.) An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia..
Keeled :: Keeled (a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale..
Scaled :: Scaled (a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring..
Trill :: Trill (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake..
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