scale

Meaning

1. 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.
2. To climb to the top of.
3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
4. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

climb

fish scale

scale of measurement

graduated table

ordered series

linear measure

weighing scale

fire-coat

reading device

roll scale

be removed

climb on

scrabble

weighing instrument

half finished

claw one’s way up

lobulus

palta

spilliness

squamula

squamule

crack

take an equilibrium

take measurement

flat solid

scale beam

stapel scale

swarm up

gamus

mensurate

plotting scale

system of notation

limescale

sc.

counting process

hard covering

proportional scale

graphical units

comparing rule

oxide skin

forge scale

counting-frame

remove bark

fishscale

balance

mass meter

abacus

flaking skin

Frequency

Hyphenated as

sc‧ale

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skeɪl/

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.