Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being..

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Abaction :: Abaction (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
Preocular :: Preocular (n.) One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
Unscale :: Unscale (v. t.) To divest of scales; to remove scales from.
Roscoelite :: Roscoelite (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
Solfeggio :: Solfeggio (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables..
Dome :: Dome (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
Scale-winged :: Scale-winged (a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged..
Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler..
Ichnography :: Ichnography (n.) A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans..
Transcalency :: Transcalency (n.) The quality or state of being transcalent.
Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..
Nasal :: Nasal (n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc..
Audiometer :: Audiometer (n.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
Ottrelite :: Ottrelite (n.) A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.
Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..
Indusium :: Indusium (n.) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet..
Graduation :: Graduation (n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc..
Nail :: Nail (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
Hepatic :: Hepatic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts..
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