scale
n//skeɪl//skala, fjäll, vågskål, måttstock, fjällpansar, bestiga, fjälla
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
Size; scope.
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
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.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
(transitive) 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.
(transitive) To climb to the top of.
(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.