vernier
(ˈvɜr ni ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
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scale
Webster Dictionary
to strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler
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vernier
(vernier scale, vernier)
Princeton's WordNet
a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
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vernier scale
(vernier scale, vernier)
Princeton's WordNet
a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
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scale
Webster Dictionary
the graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor
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rankine
(ˈræŋ kɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pertaining to an absolute temperature scale (Rankine scale) in which the degree intervals are equal to those of the Fahrenheit scale and in which 0° Rankine equals −459.7° Fahrenheit.
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a
Webster Dictionary
the name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G
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descent
Webster Dictionary
a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation
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diatonic
(ˌdaɪ əˈtɒn ɪk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
of or pertaining to a major or minor musical scale containing five whole tones and two semitones or to music based on such a scale.
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lamella
(ˈmɛl i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as a scale of horny tissue or a mushroom gill.
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wax insect
(ˈwæk sɪŋ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, esp. a Chinese scale insect,
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scute
Webster Dictionary
a bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake
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c
Webster Dictionary
the keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same
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protract
Webster Dictionary
to draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot
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scale
Webster Dictionary
a basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc
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logarithmic scale
(logarithmic scale)
Princeton's WordNet
scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers
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absolute temperature scale
(ˌæb səˈlut li, ˈæb səˌlut-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a scale for measuring temperature in which the hypothetical lowest limit is assigned the value zero, designated absolute zero, as the Kelvin or Rankine scale.
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scale
Webster Dictionary
hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc
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sub-zero
(ʌbˈzɪər oʊ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, esp. on the Fahrenheit scale.
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armored scale
(ˈɑr mərd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of numerous scale insects of the family Diaspididae, having a waxy covering and including important pests of various trees and shrubs, as the San Jose scale.
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alcoholmeter
Webster Dictionary
an instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale
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si
Webster Dictionary
a syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century
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temperament
Webster Dictionary
a system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on
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fahrenheit
Webster Dictionary
conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale
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chromatic
Webster Dictionary
proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale
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mi
Webster Dictionary
a syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system
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sector
Webster Dictionary
a mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale
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squamous
Webster Dictionary
covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale
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pentatonic scale
(pentatonic scale, pentatone)
Princeton's WordNet
a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
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slow time scale
(extended time scale, slow time scale)
Princeton's WordNet
(simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one
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