Synonyms for scale:
noun graduated system
noun thin covering, skin
verb ascend, climb
verb measure
Examples of uses:
If we look at it on this
scale, which we should stress is not drawn to
scale...
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See, it occurred to me that if we could do that here, on a small
scale why not on a larger
scale?
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Because on the
scale of the very small matter exhibits some irreducible roughness and this fine
scale of roughness Democritus of Abdera identified with the world of the atoms.
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You take a fish
scale sample and analyse the trace elements contained in the
scale tissue, and cross-match it with a water sample from the lake.
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In any
scale model like this it's impossible to have both the sizes of the planets and the sizes of their orbits to the same
scale because then the planets would be too small to see.
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And this elegant idea resolves the conflict between our jittery unpredictable picture of space on the subatomic
scale and our smooth picture of space on the large
scale.
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We've created a
scale so that we can forget its unfathomable
scale.
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The most basic
scale's a major
scale, also known as an Ionian mode.
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The
scale, you know, you start somewhere and you move up. Or down. That's a sliding
scale.
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Here it's on a tiny
scale, but on this cliff, it's on a massive
scale.
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