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- English Word Scale Definition The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
- English Word Scale Definition An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
- English Word Scale Definition The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
- English Word Scale Definition To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
- English Word Scale Definition To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- English Word Scale Definition To scatter; to spread.
- English Word Scale Definition To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- English Word Scale Definition To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
- English Word Scale Definition To separate; to scatter.
- English Word Scale Definition A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- English Word Scale Definition Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
- English Word Scale Definition A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
- English Word Scale Definition A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
- English Word Scale Definition A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
- English Word Scale Definition The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
- English Word Scale Definition Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
- English Word Scale Definition 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.
- English Word Scale Definition To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
- English Word Scale Definition To lead up by steps; to ascend.
- English Word Scale-winged Definition Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.