scale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. isim An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

   “Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.”

3. isim Size; scope.

   “There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.”

4. isim The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

   “This map uses a scale of 1:10.”

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

   “Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.”

6. isim A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. isim A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

   “the decimal scale, the binary scale”

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

   “There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.”

9. isim 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.”

10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil To climb to the top of.

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

12. fiil To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

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

13. fiil To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

    “Scaling his present bearing with his past.”

14. fiil To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions.

    “Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."”

15. isim 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.

    “Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.”

16. isim A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
17. isim A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
18. isim Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
19. isim The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
20. isim Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
21. isim Limescale.
22. isim A scale insect.
23. isim The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
24. isim An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
25. fiil To remove the scales of.

    “Please scale that fish for dinner.”

26. fiil To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

    “The dry weather is making my skin scale.”

27. fiil To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

    “to scale the inside of a boiler”

28. fiil To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

    “1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even”

29. fiil To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

    “Some sandstone scales by exposure.”

30. fiil To scatter; to spread.