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

A scale used to rate the power and likelihood of an asteroid strike onto the planet Earth.

plural of blues scale

A ruler marked with a range of calibrated scales (ratios) for drawing and measuring from reduced scale drawings, such as blueprints and floor plans.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To change the fortunes, either positively or negatively. / (idiomatic, intransitive, used with "at") To weigh (have a certain weight).

(transitive) To weigh in at; to weigh.

(US, meteorology) A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.

(physics) The scale at which quantum-mechanical effects become significant to depicting spacetime & other gravitational phenomena, typically defined as being on the order of one Planck length (~10⁻³⁵ m).

plural of wind scale

To peel off