Characteristic
(a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character |
Characteristic
(n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property |
Characteristic
(n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm. |
Gunter's scale
() A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
Ordinal
(a.) Indicating order or succession |
Ordinal
(a.) Of or pertaining to an order. |
Ordinal
(n.) A word or number denoting order or succession. |
Ordinal
(n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons. |
Ordinal
(n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. |
Scale
(n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scale
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale
(v. t.) To scatter |
Scale
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate |
Scale
(n.) A ladder |
Scale
(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. |
Scale
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. |
Scale
(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances |
Scale
(n.) A basis for a numeral system |
Scale
(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave |
Scale
(n.) Gradation |
Scale
(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts |
Scale
(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder |
Scale
(v. i.) To lead up by steps |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
| economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
| Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
| fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
| armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale
Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
| plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| scale | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
| scale weighing machine | a measuring instrument for weighing, shows amount of mass |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
vernier scale
vernier | a small movable scale that slides along a main scale, the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale |
| characteristic | a distinguishing quality |
| characteristic device characteristic | any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |
sex characteristic
sexual characteristic
sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic
primary sexual characteristic
primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
pH
pH scale | (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter, provides a measure on a scale from
to of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where is neutral and greater than is more basic and less than is more acidic), |
feature
characteristic | a prominent attribute or aspect of something, the map showed roads and other features, generosity is one of his best characteristics |
peculiarity
distinctive feature
distinguishing characteristic | an odd or unusual characteristic |
eigenvalue
eigenvalue of a matrix
eigenvalue of a square matrix
characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
| scale value | a value on some scale of measurement |
| characteristic | the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the characteristic is |
scale
musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
| chromatic scale | a -note scale including all the semitones of the octave |
| gapped scale | a musical scale with fewer than seven notes |
pentatonic scale
pentatone | a gapped scale with five notes, usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
frequencyesponse curve
frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
scale
scurf exfoliation | a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
leafy liverwort
scale moss | moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves, usually epiphytic |
scale
scale leaf | a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
scale fern
scaly fern
Asplenium ceterach
Ceterach officinarum | small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds |
ordinal number
ordinal
no. | the number designating place in an ordered sequence |
| Brix scale | a system for measuring the concentration of sugar solutions |
| Beaufort scale | a scale from
to for the force of the wind |
| scale factor | a number used as a multiplier in scaling |
| time-scale factor | the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process |
| scale | relative magnitude, they entertained on a grand scale |
| scale | the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it, the scale of the map, the scale of the model |
scale scale of measurement
graduated table
ordered series | an ordered reference standard, judging on a scale of to |
Beaufort scale
wind scale | an international scale of wind force from
(calm air) to (hurricane) |
| logarithmic scale | scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers |