Scale

What “Scale” means

Noun

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.
4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

Verb

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.
4. To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
5. To increase revenues exponentially without proportional increases in costs.

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.
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.
4. 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.
5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.

Verb

1. To remove the scales of.
2. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
3. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
4. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
5. To scatter; to spread.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.

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• Scale and Balance Manufacturing