SCALE

5 letters 7 Scrabble points /skeɪl/

Definition of SCALE

noun

  1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

  2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

    "Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10."

  3. Size; scope.

    "The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale."

verb

  1. 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.

    "We should scale that up by a factor of 10."

  2. To climb to the top of.

    "Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."

  3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

    "That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters S C A L E
Length 5 letters
Scrabble Score 7 points

Anagrams of SCALE

Words that use the same letters:

ALCES ALECS CASEL CLAES CLASE LACES

Words Containing "SCALE"

ANTISCALE BERASCALED COUNTERSCALE DESCALE DESCALED ENSCALE EXOASCALES HEMIASCALES INTRANSCALENCY INTRANSCALENT MACROSCALE MESCALERO MESOSCALE MICROSCALE MIDSCALE PASCALE POSTSCALENUS PROTOASCALES RASCALESS RESCALE

Words Starting with "SCALE"

SCALEBACK SCALEBARK SCALEBOARD SCALED SCALEDRAKE SCALEFISH SCALEFUL SCALELESS SCALELET SCALELIKE SCALEMAN SCALEMEN SCALENA SCALENE SCALENI SCALENOHEDRA SCALENOHEDRAL SCALENOHEDRON SCALENOHEDRONS SCALENON

Words Ending with "SCALE"

ANTISCALE COUNTERSCALE DESCALE ENSCALE MACROSCALE MESOSCALE MICROSCALE MIDSCALE PASCALE RESCALE SUBSCALE TIMESCALE UNDERSCALE UNSCALE UPSCALE