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.

(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.

A device to measure mass or weight. / Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

(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 remove the scales of. / (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. / (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

(zoology) Covered with scales or scale-like structures. / Without scales, or with the scales removed.

simple past tense and past participle of scale

(of a model) such that each dimension has the same proportion to the original

On a large scale: involving large amounts or volumes of something.

(of a drawing or a model) with a uniform reduction or enlargement in each dimension