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1.nounA ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2.nounAn ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude."Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10."
3.nounSize; scope."The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale."
4.nounThe ratio of depicted distance to actual distance."This map uses a scale of 1:10."
5.nounA line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6.nounA series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7.nounA mathematical base for a numeral system; radix."the decimal scale; the binary scale"
8.nounGradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9.nounA 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."
10.verbTo change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product."We should scale that up by a factor of 10."
11.verbTo climb to the top of."Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
12.verbTo tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors."That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
13.verbTo weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.