1. small flat pieces that cover the skin of fish and reptiles
2. a device for weighing things
3. a series of musical notes in ascending or descending order
Usage: music

Examples

• The fish had shiny silver scales.
• She weighed the apples on the kitchen scales.
• The piano student practiced major scales every day.
• The map uses a scale of one inch to ten miles.
• The scale of the disaster was enormous.
• Digital scales are more accurate than analog ones.
• The snake shed its scales as it grew.
• They built a scale model of the building.