…each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another…
…an instrument for weighing. Scales were originally simple balances (pairs of scales) but are now usually devices with an internal weighing mechanism housed under a platform on which the thing to be weighed is placed, with a gauge or electronic display showing the weight…
…a graduated range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading something…
…a graded scale of wages or salaries paid within a particular organization or profession…
…increase something (or be increased) in size or number…
…a scale with arbitrary markings, used with a hydrometer to measure the relative density of liquids…
…a hydrometer scale for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution at a given temperature…
…a scale of hardness used in classifying minerals. It runs from 1 to 10 using a series of reference minerals, and a position on the scale depends on the ability to scratch minerals rated lower…
…very thin wood used (especially formerly) in bookbinding, making hatboxes, and backing pictures…
…a small modified leaf, especially a colorless membranous one, such as on a rhizome or forming part of a bulb…
…a scale of tornado severity with numbers from 0 to 6, based on the degree of observed damage…
…a scale of temperature with absolute zero as zero, and the triple point of water as exactly 273.16 degrees…
…an obsolete scale of temperature at which water freezes at 0° and boils at 80° under standard conditions…
…a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations. The more destructive earthquakes typically have magnitudes between about 5.5 and 8.9; the scale is logarithmic and a difference of one represents an approximate thirtyfold difference in magnitude…
…a small insect with a protective shieldlike scale. It spends most of its life attached by its mouth to a single plant, sometimes occurring in such large numbers that it becomes a serious pest…
…a scale of fees, taxes, wages, etc., that varies in accordance with variation of some standard…
…a scale of wind speed based on a visual estimation of the wind’s effects, ranging from force 0 (less than 1 knot or 1 km/h, “calm”) to force 12 (64 knots or 118 km/h and above, “hurricane”)…
…a twelve-point scale for expressing the local intensity of an earthquake, ranging from I (virtually imperceptible) to XII (total destruction)…
…reduce something (or be reduced) in size, number or extent, especially by a constant proportion across the board…
…reduce something in size, number, or extent, especially by a constant proportion across the board…
…the measurement of intelligence by the application of a test (see Binet-Simon test) consisting of tasks and problems graded in terms of mental age…
…a proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production…
…an Australian scale insect with a large fluted cottony egg sac, infesting citrus trees. It threatened to destroy the Californian citrus industry until it was controlled by the introduction of the Australian vedalia beetle…
…a range of gray shades from white to black, as used in a monochrome display or printout…
…an intermediate scale, especially that between the scales of weather systems and of microclimates, on which storms and other phenomena occur…
…a marine bristle worm with scales on the upper surface that have a protective function, and in some species are able to luminesce…
…an economic disadvantage such as an increase in cost arising from an increase in the size of an organization…
…a marine bristle worm with scales on the upper surface that have a protective function, and in some species are able to luminesce…
…the hierarchical structure of society or of a society…
…the scale of temperature in which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° under standard conditions…
…a test of visual acuity using rows of letters printed in successively decreasing sizes (the Snellen scale)…
…a test of visual acuity using rows of letters printed in successively decreasing sizes (the Snellen scale)…
