Scale

Scale or scales may refer to:

Common meanins

• Scale (anatomy), a rigid plate that growes oot o the skin o various animals
• Scale (dermatology), a seicontar skin lesion in humans that resembles ainimal scales
• Scale (map), the ratio o the distance on a map tae the correspondin actual distance
• Scale (meisurin), an instrument used to measure mass
• Scale (muisic), a sequence o ordered muisical notes
• Scale (ratio), the ratio o the linear dimension o the model tae the same dimension o the oreeginal
• Spatial scale, a clessification o sizes

Muisic

• Scale (muisic), a sequence o ordered muisical notes
• Scale (album), a 2006 album bi electronic airtist Matthew Herbert
• "The Scale", a sang frae Our Love to Admire bi Interpol
• Scale (string instruments), the soondin lenth o the strings o an instrument

Places

• Scales, Californie, a commonty in the Unitit States
• Scales, Sooth Lakeland, Cumbrie, Ingland, a veelage
• The Scales, the ineetial climm o the Chilkoot Pass

Science an mathematics

Biology

• Scale (anatomy), a rigid plate that growes oot o the skin o various animals
• Scale (dermatology), a seicontar skin lesion in humans that resembles ainimal scales
• Scale (insect anatomy), an anatomical featur o the wings o mochs an butterflees
• Scale insect, a wauxy coatit ainimal that resemmles a fish scale
• Scale, a teep o trichome, ony flat epidermal ootgrowthe in botany
• Bulb scale, the storage layers o a plant bulb

Chemistry an materials science

• Scale (chemistry), the range o mass or vollum o a chemical reaction or process
• Mill scale, the flaky surface on het rowed steel, consistin o airn oxides
• Foolin, whiles cried scale, a bigup o unwantit substances on a submerged surface
  • Limescale, a teep o foolin

Mathematics

• Scale (ratio), the ratio o a linear dimension o a model tae the correspondin dimension o the oreeginal
• Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set o pynts
• Scale parameter, a description o the spreid or dispersion o a probability distribution
• Lang an short scales, hou pouers o ten are named an grouped in lairge nummers

Ither sciences

• Scale (analytical tuil), a concept in the study o complex seestems an hierarchy theory
• Scale (social sciences), a tuil for orderin entities bi quantitative attributes
• Southern California Linux Expo, an appen-soorce saftware conference held in Los Angeles, Californie

Ither uises

• Scales (surname)
• Scale airmour, an early form o armor
• Scale model, a true-tae-scale pheesical representation o an object
• Baron Scales, a teetle in the Peerage o Ingland
• Pay scale, a seestem or structur o compensation for wark
• Libra (constellation), kent as "the scales" forby

See as weel

• Mizan (Scale in Scots), a treatise on Islam bi Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
• Scalability, a concept in computer science an electronics
• Scalin (geometry), a linear transformation that enlairges or shrinks objects