Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scale

A device for measuring weight.

plural of scale

A surname. / An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States. / A small village in Aldingham parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2772).

plural of scaling

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.

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

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

(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.

(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.