English Dictionary

scale

/skeɪl/

noun

(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. / An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. / Size; scope.

He climbed up the scale to reach the top of the wall.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

意味（2）

An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

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

意味（3）

Size; scope.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

意味（4）

The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

This map uses a scale of 1:10.

意味（5）

A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.

意味（6）

(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

意味（7）

A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

the decimal scale; the binary scale

意味（8）

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.

意味（9）

A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.