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Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile..

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Brigandine :: Brigandine (n.) A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages..

Sonometer :: Sonometer (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box..

Snake''s-head :: Snake's-head (n.) The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.

Sericite :: Sericite (n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

Mental :: Mental (n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

Eidograph :: Eidograph (n.) An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

Ottrelite :: Ottrelite (n.) A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..

Scaled :: Scaled (a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove..

Thuja :: Thuja (n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves..

Cylindrometric :: Cylindrometric (a.) Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.

Lepidoted :: Lepidoted (a.) Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster..

Squamate :: Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins..

Audiometer :: Audiometer (n.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..

Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..

Makeweight :: Makeweight (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

Desquamate :: Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant.

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall..