Definition of "scale" in İngilizce

noun

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

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.
   • The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.

3. Size; scope.

   • There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

   • This map uses a scale of 1:10.

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

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

7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

   • the decimal scale, the binary scale

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

9. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.

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

verb

1. (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.

   • We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

2. (transitive) To climb to the top of.

   • Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

3. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

   • That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

4. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

5. (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.

   • Every single print that goes out our door has a warning in its title block telling the world, "Do not scale this drawing."

noun

1. 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.