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Scale
1. A measuring instrument used to determine the weight of items. He steps on a
scale to determine his weight.
2. One of many small platelike dermal of epidermal structures that
characteristically form the external covering of fishes, reptiles, and certain
mammals. In preparing a fish to eat, first remove the scales.
3. A system of ordered marks at fixed intervals used as a reference standard in
measurement. We used a ruler with scales in inches and centimeters.
4. Proper proportion. They lived in a house that seemed out of scale with its
surroundings.
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