(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.

(music) A scale having five notes per octave.

(nautical) An empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions.

Large in amount, scope or extent. / (of a map or image) Drawn large so as to show detail.

A value on the Richter scale

(seismology) a logarithmic scale used to express the energy released by an earthquake, each increase of 1 representing a 32-fold increase in energy.

A question, usually part of a questionnaire, in which the response is chosen from a range of values

(music) A seven-note musical scale of five tones and two semitones.

A set of musical notes, typically ordered in pitch.

plural of scale cube