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scales
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Wiktionary
scalesnoun
A device for weighing goods for sale.
The butcher put the sausages on the scales.
Editors Contribution
scalesnoun
Plural noun of the word scale.
The weighing scales are pink and she uses them once a week to check her body weight. The fish has scales all over its body.
Submitted by MaryC on March 27, 2016
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Entomology
Scales
broad flattened hairs, forming the wing vestiture of Lepidoptera, and present in various other insects.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SCALES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scales is ranked #2732 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Scales surname appeared 13,190 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Scales.
55.4% or 7,314 total occurrences were Black.
38% or 5,024 total occurrences were White.
3.5% or 472 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.1% or 282 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.4% or 54 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 44 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of scales in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of scales in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of scales in a Sentence
We are recognizing that the impacts of climate change are not just on long time scales but are also present in short-term, high-impact weather events.
The scales (of justice) represent balance: There should be no entitling one way or the other, based on who you are or where you're from.
These statistics tell me that something ain't right, we as a nation are tipping the scales away from saving, and buying stuff, stuff and more stuff.
Our results show that these changes would allow the ocean to absorb an enormous amount of [carbon dioxide] on long time scales; perhaps hiding the warming effects of volcanism in the aftermath of the event.
This to me is a fine example of how space technology becomes ever more extraordinary by building upon its prior successes, we use formation flying in space every time a capsule docks at the International Space Station. But Michael and Thibault have gone far beyond that, and shown a way to maintain formation over scales larger than Earth itself.
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