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Etymology 1
Latin scalae

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Pronunciation
audio|en-us-scale.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪl|-eɪl

Noun
en-noun

1. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.

#: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

1. size|Size; scope.

#: The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.

1. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

#: This map uses a scale of 1:10.

1. A means of assigning a magnitude.

#:The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale|Richter scale.

1. music A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
2. A device for measuring the weight of an object.

Translations
trans-top|ordered numerical sequence
Crimean Tatar: �kala
Dutch: schaal f
French: échelle f
German: Skala f
Polish: skala f
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Slovak: škála f
Swedish: skala c
Telugu: స���ల� (skaelu)
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trans-top|size or scope
Crimean Tatar: �kala
Dutch: schaal f
Finnish: skaala, asteikko
French: échelle f
German: Ausma� n
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Polish: skala f
Swedish: skala c
Telugu: స�థాయి (sthaayi), పరిమాణమ� (parimaaNamu)
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trans-top|ratio of distances
Arabic: ARchar|��زا� IPAchar|(mizán) m
Crimean Tatar: �kala
Chinese: �度, �度 (bi�odù)
Czech: m��ítko n
Dutch: schaal f
Finnish: mittakaava
French: échelle f
German: Ma�stab m
Hungarian: beosztás
Italian: scala f
Japanese: ��� (���, memori)
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Korean: �� (jeongdo)
Polish: skala f
Portuguese: escale#Portuguese|escala f
Russian: ма���аб (masštáb) m
Slovak: škála f
Spanish: escala#Spanish|escala f
Swedish: måttstock, skala c
Telugu: స���ల� (skaelu)
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trans-top|assigning a magnitude
Czech: stupnice f
Dutch: schaal f
Finnish: asteikko
French: échelle f
German: Skala f
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Polish: skala f
Serbian: stupnice
Slovak: škála f
Swedish: skala c
Telugu: ��లత (kolata), ప�రమాణమ� (pramaaNamu)
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trans-top|series of notes
Czech: stupnice f
Dutch: toonladder f

French: échelle, gamme f
German: Tonleiter f
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Swedish: skala c
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trans-top|device for measuring the weight
Czech: váha f
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Verb
en-verb|scal|ing

1. transitive To change the size of, maintaining proportion.

#: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

1. transitive To climb.

#: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

1. intransitive (computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

#: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

Translations
trans-top|change size of
Finnish: skaalata
French: agrandir (scale up), réduire (scale down)
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German: skalieren
Swedish: skala
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trans-top|climb
Finnish: nousta, kiivetä
French: escalader
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German: besteigen, erklimmen
Swedish: bestiga
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trans-top|tolerate increases in throughput
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Polish: skalowa� si�
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Derived terms
scaling ladder
widescale

Related terms
major scale
minor scale
modal scale
to scale

Etymology 2
Old French escale (French écale), "husk", "chip"; Old High German scala#Old High German|scala.

Noun
en-noun

1. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
4. A pine nut of a pinecone.
5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
6. scale mail|Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
7. limescale|Limescale

Translations
trans-top|keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals
Ainu: ����|�<small>�</small>�<small>�</small> (ramram)
Cebuano: kalis
Dutch: schub
Finnish: suomu
French: écaille f
German: Schuppe f
Greek: λέ�ι n
Hawaiian: unahi
Italian: scaglia f, squama f
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Japanese: � (���, uroko)
Korean: �� (bineul)
Portuguese: escama f
Polish: �uska f
Russian: �е��йка (�ešújka) f
Serbian: krljušt
Slovak: lupina f
Swedish: fjäll
Tagalog: kaliskis
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trans-top|coloured chitin
French: écaille f
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trans-top|flake of skin
French: squame f
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German: Schuppe f
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trans-top|pine nut
French: écaille f
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trans-top|Flaky material sloughed off heated metal
French: barbure f
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trans-top|scale mail
Finnish: suomupanssari
French: armure d�écailles f
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German: Schuppenpanzer m
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Verb
en-verb|scal|ing

1. transitive To remove the scales of.

#: Please scale that fish for dinner.

1. (intansitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

#: The dry weather is making my skin scale.

Translations
trans-top|remove the scales of
French: écailler
German: entschuppen
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Swedish: fjälla
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trans-top|become scaly
German: schuppen
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Swedish: fjälla
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Etymology 3
Old Norse skal, "bowl". Confer Old English scealu, "cup", "shell"; Dutch schaal; German Schale; Old High German sc�la; Gothic skalja. Cognate with scale#Etymology 2|scale, as in Etymology 2.

Noun
en-noun

1. A device to measure mass or weight.

#:After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.

1. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance.

Translations
trans-top|device
Arabic: ARchar|��زا� (mīz�n)
Bosnian: vaga#Bosnian|vaga f, terazije#Bosnian|terazije f, kantar#Bosnian|kantar m
Croatian: vaga#Croatian|vaga f
Dutch: weegschaal f
Finnish: vaaka, varsivaaka
French: balance#French|balance f
German: Waage f
Greek: ζ�γα�ιά f
Gujarati: ત�લા (tul�) f
Hindi: तरा�़� (tar�zū) m, त�ला (tul�) f
Hungarian: mérleg
Ido: balanco
Italian: bilancia f
Japanese: 秤 (hakari), 天秤 (tenbin)
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Kurdish: terazî f
Norwegian: vekt f
Persian: FAchar|تراز� (tarâzû), FAchar|��زا� (mîzân)
Polish: waga f
Russian: ве��
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: вага#Serbian|вага f, �е�ази�е#Serbian|�е�ази�е f, кан�а�#Serbian|кан�а� m
:Roman: vaga#Serbian|vaga f, terazije#Serbian|terazije f, kantar#Serbian|kantar m
Swedish: balansvåg c, våg c, vågskål c
Telugu: త�రాస� (traasu), �ా�ా (kaaTaa)
Turkish: terazi, kantar
Urdu: URchar|تراز� (tar�zū) m, URchar|ت�ا (tul�) f, URchar|��زا� (mīz�n) f
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trans-top|dish of a balance
Bosnian: tas#Bosnian|tas m
French: plateau m (d'une balance#French|balance f)
German: Waagschale f
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Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �а�#Serbian|�а� m
:Roman: tas#Serbian|tas m
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Italian

Noun
scale f

1. plural of|scala|lang=Italian

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