(transitive) To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion. / (transitive) To reduce the cost of a process, or the amount spent on something.

(US, Australia) A popular scale for model railroads; 1:87 scale

(music) A scale including all twelve semitones in an octave.

A scale for measuring temperature, with zero defined as absolute zero, with kelvins as the units (equivalent to degrees Celsius).

A measure for the piquancy (“heat, burn, spiciness”) of various chili peppers, indicating the level of capsaicin.

A scale whose values can be compared; formally, a scale whose set of values is totally ordered.

A device, often part of a conveyor belt system, that weighs a product while it is in motion.

A scale used in a filling operation to indicate the proper filling level has been reached.

A measurement scale for wind speed.

A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term (e.g. a billion is a million million).