Scale
noun
A system used to measure or rank something.
This work scores 5 on a scale of 1 to 10
Often appears as...
- scale of 1 to 10
- scale of measurement
noun
Thin piece covering body of fish or reptiles.
The fish's scales are red and shiny
Often appears as...
- fish scale
- snake scale
verb
To climb something steep.
He scaled the mountain with ease
Often appears as...
- scale a mountain
- scale a wall
noun
An instrument for weighing.
I check my weight on the scale every morning
Often appears as...
- weighing scale
- balance scale
noun
A sequence of musical notes in order.
The song is composed in the scale of C major
Often appears as...
- musical scale
- major scale
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verb
To adjust in size in relation to a standard or other factor.
The recipe can be scaled down to feed just two people
Often appears as...
- scale down
- scale up
noun
A system used to measure or rank something.
This work scores 5 on a scale of 1 to 10
Often appears as...
- scale of 1 to 10
- scale of measurement
noun
Thin piece covering body of fish or reptiles.
The fish's scales are red and shiny
Often appears as...
- fish scale
- snake scale
verb
To climb something steep.
He scaled the mountain with ease
Often appears as...
- scale a mountain
- scale a wall
noun
An instrument for weighing.
I check my weight on the scale every morning
Often appears as...
- weighing scale
- balance scale
noun
A sequence of musical notes in order.
The song is composed in the scale of C major
Often appears as...
- musical scale
- major scale
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To adjust in size in relation to a standard or other factor.
The recipe can be scaled down to feed just two people
Often appears as...
- scale down
- scale up
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Pro Tip 1/2Quantifying Rank
Scale can represent levels of quality, importance, or rank, often numerically.
Your essay will be graded on a scale from A to F.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Linear
A scale doesn't always follow a linear progression; some scales have varied intervals.
The earthquake was not large, only a 4 on the Richter scale.
Pro Tip 1/2Quantifying Rank
Scale can represent levels of quality, importance, or rank, often numerically.
Your essay will be graded on a scale from A to F.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Linear
A scale doesn't always follow a linear progression; some scales have varied intervals.
The earthquake was not large, only a 4 on the Richter scale.
Pro Tip 1/2Quantifying Rank
Scale can represent levels of quality, importance, or rank, often numerically.
Your essay will be graded on a scale from A to F.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Linear
A scale doesn't always follow a linear progression; some scales have varied intervals.
The earthquake was not large, only a 4 on the Richter scale.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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Questions No One Knows...
or dark energy, that appear to account for most of the universe's mass. Or, maybe we're looking at the wrong scale. Perhaps intelligent civilizations come to realize that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way,
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The five major world...
When we die, we are reincarnated into a new body. If we followed our dharma and did our proper duty in our past life, we get good karma, which sends our soul upward in the social scale. Our rebirth into the next life is thus determined by what we do in this one.
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Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...
This is one of planet Earth's greatest spectacles. It's rarely seen on this scale and it won't last long. Once the food has gone, the steady roar of a billion beating locust wings will once again be replaced by nothing more than the sound of the desert wind.
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Bring on the learning...
And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.
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Baby Owl vs. Hawk Moth PIPE...
the hawk moth is protected by a dense layer of microscopic scales the force of the outlet grabbing them off dislodges it scales making it one slippery meal to hold on to what the hawkmoth didn't plan for is the hunger and tenacity of the
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Why don't perpetual...
because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe. Perhaps we'll find new exotic forms of matter that'll force us to revisit the laws of thermodynamics. Or maybe there's perpetual motion on tiny quantum scales.
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The complex geometry of...
an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate, and facilitates the invention of incredible new patterns.
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Why modern renewable...
worldwide because wind and solar power are cheaper and can also make grids resilience preventing cascading blackouts but these modern renewables also scale up in a fundamentally different way traditionally we built
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The Atlantic slave...
Slavery, the treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights, has occurred in many forms throughout the world. But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
or dark energy, that appear to account for most of the universe's mass. Or, maybe we're looking at the wrong scale. Perhaps intelligent civilizations come to realize that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way,
Video examples
The five major world...
When we die, we are reincarnated into a new body. If we followed our dharma and did our proper duty in our past life, we get good karma, which sends our soul upward in the social scale. Our rebirth into the next life is thus determined by what we do in this one.
Video examples
Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...
This is one of planet Earth's greatest spectacles. It's rarely seen on this scale and it won't last long. Once the food has gone, the steady roar of a billion beating locust wings will once again be replaced by nothing more than the sound of the desert wind.
Video examples
Bring on the learning...
And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.
Video examples
Baby Owl vs. Hawk Moth PIPE...
the hawk moth is protected by a dense layer of microscopic scales the force of the outlet grabbing them off dislodges it scales making it one slippery meal to hold on to what the hawkmoth didn't plan for is the hunger and tenacity of the
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe. Perhaps we'll find new exotic forms of matter that'll force us to revisit the laws of thermodynamics. Or maybe there's perpetual motion on tiny quantum scales.
Video examples
The complex geometry of...
an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate, and facilitates the invention of incredible new patterns.
Video examples
Why modern renewable...
worldwide because wind and solar power are cheaper and can also make grids resilience preventing cascading blackouts but these modern renewables also scale up in a fundamentally different way traditionally we built
Video examples
The Atlantic slave...
Slavery, the treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights, has occurred in many forms throughout the world. But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
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Felicity Jones
English Actress
My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
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Ramin Djawadi
German Composer
There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.
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Christopher Nolan
British Director
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
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George Saunders
American Writer
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
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Eric Fischl
American Artist
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
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Josh Billings
American Comedian
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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Felicity Jones
English Actress
My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
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Ramin Djawadi
German Composer
There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.
Quote examples
Christopher Nolan
British Director
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
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George Saunders
American Writer
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
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Eric Fischl
American Artist
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Quote examples
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Quote examples
Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
Quote examples
Josh Billings
American Comedian
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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