as in balance
a device for measuring weight
I hate getting on the bathroom scale
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as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
a student who scored very highly on a standard intelligence scale
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as in to measure
to find out the size, extent, or amount of
scaled the logs to get a rough idea of the amount of usable lumber they were likely to yield
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Recent Examples of scale
Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The alerts can be issued on a statewide or local scale, and more than one child can be involved in the case.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
Typically, if memory bandwidth isn’t a problem, performance tends to scale linearly with resolution.
—PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
What is the right thing to do on a macro scale and then on the micro in terms of her family, and are those the same things?
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The alerts can be issued on a statewide or local scale, and more than one child can be involved in the case.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
Institutions have implemented hiring freezes and scaled back research activities to combat these losses.
—A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
Typically, if memory bandwidth isn’t a problem, performance tends to scale linearly with resolution.
—PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Scale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scale. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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