Scale
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Scale or scales may refer to:
Common meanings
- Scale (map), the ratio of the distance on a map to the corresponding actual distance
- Scale (ratio), the ratio of the linear dimension of the model to the same dimension of the original
- Weighing scale, an instrument used to measure weight
- Scale (music), a sequence of ordered musical notes
- Scale (anatomy), a rigid plate which grows out of the skin of various animals
- Scale (dermatology), a secondary skin lesion in humans that resembles animal scales
- Pay scale, a system or structure of compensation for work
Places
- Scales, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, a village
- Scales, California, a community in the United States
Mathematics
- Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points
- Scale parameter, a description of the spread or dispersion of a probability distribution
Science
- Scale (physics), an informal system of general size categorizations
- Scale (chemistry), to the scale in mass or volume, of a chemical reaction or process
- Bulb scale, the storage layers of a plant bulb
- scale, a type of trichome, any flat epidermal outgrowth in botany
- Scale insect, a waxy coated animal that resembles a fish scale
- Scale (Lepidopteran anatomy)
Music
- Scale (album), a 2006 album by electronic artist Matthew Herbert
- "The Scale", a song from Our Love to Admire by Interpol
- Scale (string instruments), the sounding length of the strings of an instrument
People
- Scales (surname)
- Baron Scales, a title in the Peerage of England
Other uses
- Libra (constellation), also known as "the scales"
- Scale armour, an early form of armor
- Limescale, a chalky deposit
- Mill scale, the flaky surface on hot rolled steel, consisting of iron oxides
- Fouling, buildup of unwanted substances, sometimes called "scale", on hard surfaces
- Scale (social sciences), related to ordering entities by quantitative attributes
- Southern California Linux Expo, an open-source software conference held in Los Angeles, California
See also
- Mizan (Scale in English), a treatise on Islam by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
- Scalability, a concept in computer science and electronics
- Scaling (geometry), a linear transformation that enlarges or shrinks objects
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