An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude

• What's the scale of this map?

  Tatoeba · _undertoad · CC BY 2.0 FR

• I want a map of Texas on a scale of 1 to 250000.

  Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR

A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending

Size; scope

The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance

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

A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies

A mathematical base for a numeral system; radixrare

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or orderrare

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 graderare

Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptilerare

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

To climb to the top of

To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system

To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors