scale

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We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

This map uses a scale of 1:10.

Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.

the decimal scale; the binary scale

There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.

Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.