(economics, idiomatic, plural only) a function describing how returns scale when production increases in the long run

(music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.

(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.

(music) Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad. / (music) The natural minor scale.

(nautical) An empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions.

Large in amount, scope or extent. / (of a map or image) Drawn large so as to show detail.

(astronomy) a scale of seeing conditions used by amateur astronomers.

(seismology) a logarithmic scale used to express the energy released by an earthquake, each increase of 1 representing a 32-fold increase in energy.

A value on the Richter scale

A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.