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SCALE OF MEASUREMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ordered reference standard
Example:
judging on a scale of 1 to 10
Synonyms:
graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("scale of measurement" is a kind of...):
criterion; measure; standard; touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scale of measurement"):
Beaufort scale; wind scale (an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane))
index (a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number)
logarithmic scale (scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers)
Mercalli scale (a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII)
Mohs scale (a scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance)
Richter scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations)
moment magnitude scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake)
temperature scale (a system of measuring temperature)
wage scale; wage schedule (a schedule of wages paid for different jobs)
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