as in balances
a device for measuring weight
I hate getting on the bathroom scale
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as in hierarchies
a scheme of rank or order
a student who scored very highly on a standard intelligence scale
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as in ranges
the distance or extent between possible extremes
with the scale going from one to ten, what did you think of the movie?
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as in measures
to find out the size, extent, or amount of
scaled the logs to get a rough idea of the amount of usable lumber they were likely to yield
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Recent Examples of scales
Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
Body Scan 2 Withings, which has been making connected scales since 2009, announced an upgrade at CES 2026.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Terrorist organizations aligned with Iran, including Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis are using crypto at unprecedented scales, according to the report.
—Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
Climate Central intends to expand its billion-dollar database in the coming years, picking up where NOAA left off and potentially widening the data to incorporate smaller dollar scales, among other advances.
—Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
The one that quite possibly tipped the scales were the texts Phelps exchanged about team owner Richard Childress with O’Donnell and NASCAR executive vice president Brian Herbst.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026
Having established that the cosmic microwave background is symmetric on large scales, variations in this relic radiation from the big bang have been found.
—Subir Sarkar, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Typical smart scales only have foot electrodes, and solely use lower-body data to extrapolate total body composition.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2026
Calculations require frequent carry operations, but the simplicity of binary logic allows it to be implemented extremely efficiently at microscopic scales.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Cue the Mayhem Ball, the pop star’s eighth concert tour, where Lady Gaga rises from a sand pit populated with skeletons, scales up a dress the size of a multi-story apartment building, and unravels the longest gown train a bride could ever dream of.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026
For Hyundai Motor Group, CES has become less about concept vehicles and more about how automation scales inside real factories.
—Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
The credit scales down, based on income, to $123 per young child and $92 for older children for individual filers making between $80,000 and $85,000.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
Rather, if the Internet of Things scales up as predicted, and smart home and smart city tech takes hold, before too long everything everywhere will be dialing in to 6G infrastructure for more and more sizable uplinks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
As Puck, the media company led by co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly, scales up with the acquisition of Air Mail, founder Graydon Carter is stepping back.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
When that kind of listening behavior scales up across an entire population, and audiences are spread thin, the cultural conversation quiets.
—Jonathan Garrett, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Instead of rollups, Pierce’s team scales with a repeatable, specialty-by-specialty playbook—standardized contracts, automated onboarding, and shared data pipes.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
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The local guides immediately stepped in, got off the boat and attempted to immobilize the snake so that Fry and Smith would be able to take one of its scales for their snake genetics study.
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In this role, Klingenberg will lead CFY’s engineering and data science teams as the company scales.
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The property’s lot measures 4,640 square feet in area.—
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The radio chart measures the number of plays each song received in a particular week.—
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Counter Culture starts you off with a quick quiz that gauges your preferences.—
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Flood forecasts Along the coast, moderate to major flooding is forecast at nearly three dozen tide gauges from North Carolina to Long Island over the weekend, including the Chesapeake and Delaware bays.—
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“Scales.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scales. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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