A map shows a place using less paper than it would take if drawn true size. This helps us understand the area easily, but things look smaller because we use a scale on maps and diagrams.
1 - A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2 - An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
3 - Size; scope.
1 - 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.
2 - To climb to the top of.
3 - To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
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.
2 - A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
3 - A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
1 - To remove the scales of.
2 - To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
3 - To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
1 - A device to measure mass or weight.
2 - Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
1 - The charity organization operates on a sliding scale to maximize participation.
1 - La organización benéfica opera sobre una escala variable para maximizar la participación.
2 - Every musician should master the major scale early in their training.
2 - Todo músico debería dominar la escala mayor desde temprano en su formación.
3 - The true scale of the disaster was beyond their grasp at that moment.
3 - La verdadera magnitud del desastre estaba fuera de su alcance en ese momento.
4 - The relief packages are a drop in the pond against the scale of disaster.
4 - Los paquetes de ayuda son una gota en el mar frente a la magnitud del desastre.
5 - He keeps a kitchen scale on the worktop for precise measurements.
5 - Él mantiene una balanza de cocina en la encimera para medidas precisas.
6 - For accuracy, the scale was calibrated to measure troy ounces only.
6 - Para mayor precisión, la balanza se calibró para medir solo onzas troy.
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