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scale noun

  /skeɪl/ , /skæɪl/ , [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] , [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
  • Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
  • A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
 Schuppe
  • Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
 Schuppenpanzer

scale noun

  /skeɪl/ , /skæɪl/ , [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] , [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
  • (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
  • (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
 Tonleiter, Maßstab
  • An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
 Skala, Maßstab
  • The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
 Maßstab
  • Size; scope.
 Ausmaß

scale verb

  /skeɪl/ , /skæɪl/ , [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] , [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
  • (transitive) To climb to the top of.
 besteigen, erklimmen
  • (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
 skalieren

scale noun

  /skeɪl/ , /skæɪl/ , [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] , [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
  • Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
 Waagschale

scale verb

  /skeɪl/ , /skæɪl/ , [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] , [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
  • (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
 entschuppen
  • (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
 schuppen

scales noun

  /skeɪlz/
  • A device for measuring weight.
 Waage

scaled adjective

  /skeɪld/
  • Without scales, or with the scales removed.
 entschuppt, schuppenbedeckt, schuppig
major scale
Dur
Beaufort scale
Beaufortskala
large-scale
groß angelegt, großangelegt
to scale
maßstabsgerecht, maßstabsgetreu
engineer's scale
Dreikantmaßstab
Likert scale
Likert-Skala, Likertskala
pay scale
Tarif
fish scale
Fischschuppe
Richter scale
Richterskala
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