…each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another…
…an instrument for weighing, originally a simple balance (a pair of scales) but now usually a device with an electronic or other internal weighing mechanism…
…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…
…(of a drawing or model) in proportion to the surroundings…
…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 position on the scale depends on 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 colourless membranous one, such as on a rhizome or forming part of a bulb…
…a marine bristle worm with scales on the upper surface which have a protective function, and in some species are able to luminesce…
…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; it is a logarithmic scale and a difference of one represents an approximate thirtyfold difference in magnitude…
…armour consisting of small overlapping plates of metal, leather, or horn…
…a small bug with a protective shield-like 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 the variation of a particular standard…
…the hierarchical structure of society or of a society…
…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 (or increase) something in size, number, or extent…
…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…
…a scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, with no semitones…
…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…
…contribute something to one side of an argument or debate…
…a range of grey shades from white to black, as used in a monochrome display or printout…
…an intermediate scale between those of weather systems and of microclimates, on which storms and other phenomena occur…
…on a scale of 10−9 metre; having or involving dimensions of less than 100 nanometres…
…the time allowed for or taken by a process or sequence of events…
…an economic disadvantage such as an increase in cost arising from an increase in the size of an organization…
…the Celsius scale of temperature…
…an eyesight test using rows of letters printed in successively decreasing sizes (the Snellen scale) of which patients are asked to read as many as they can…
…the Fahrenheit scale of temperature…
…an eyesight test using rows of letters printed in successively decreasing sizes (the Snellen scale) of which patients are asked to read as many as they can…
…a system of numerical notation in which the value of a digit depends upon its position in the number, successive positions representing successive powers of a fixed base…
