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Auxiliary scales
Auxiliary Aux*il"ia*ry (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.
Muscales
Muscales Mus*ca"les, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. muscus moss.] (Bot.) An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepatic[ae] and sphagna.
Rascaless
Rascaless Ras"cal*ess, n. A female rascal. [Humorous]
scales compasses dividers
Proportional Pro*por"tion*al, a. [L. proportionalis: cf. F. proportionnel.] 1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. --Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. --Hutton. 3. (Math.) Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter. Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic. Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale. Proportional scales, compasses, dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.

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- Look up scale or scales in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scale or scales may refer to: Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of...
- 1997, Scales starred in Chris Barfoot's science-fiction film short Phoenix which was first aired in 1999 by NBCUniversal's Sci-Fi Channel. Scales pla****...
- magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize...
- such basic short scales that are combined to form hundreds of full-octave spanning scales. Among these scales Hejaz scale has one scale step spanning 14...
- it from two other scales they had developed, the surface-wave magnitude (MS) and body wave magnitude (MB) scales. The Richter scale was defined in 1935...
- A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or m****. These are also known as m**** scales, weight scales, m**** balances, m****ometers, and weight...
- fishes are covered with the cycloid scales of salmon and carp, or the ctenoid scales of perch, or the ganoid scales of sturgeons and gars. Cartilaginous...
- hemitonic in scale.) Hemitonic pentatonic scales are also called "ditonic scales", because the largest interval in them is the ditone (e.g., in the scale C–E–F–G–B–C...
- that enlarges or diminishes objects Scale invariance, a feature of objects or laws that do not change if scales of length, energy, or other variables...
- macroseismic scale ****an Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale (Shindo scale) Rohn emergency scale Seismic intensity scales Seismic magnitude scales Spectral...