(music) A distinctive six-tone scale used in Istrian and Kvarnerian folk music.

(music) chromatic scale, using twelve-tone technique

plural of dodecuple scale

A scale for laying down small fractions of the unit of measurement, the parallel lines drawn lengthwise on its surface being divided into sections by lines drawn crosswise, and in one end section being intersected by a series of other parallel lines drawn obliquely at equal distances across them.

plural of diagonal scale

plural of platform scale

A weighing-machine with a flat surface for holding the thing to be weighed.

A scale used by surveyors for reducing chains and links to acres and rods.

plural of reducing scale

(ichthyology) One of the scales along the midside that spans from the rear edge of the gill cover to the base of the caudal fin of a fish, usually along a lateral line.