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. |
Magnitude (n.) Extent of dimensions |
Magnitude (n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. |
Magnitude (n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. |
Magnitude (n.) Greatness |
Magnitude (n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect |
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. |
Richter scale a logarithmic scale of toformerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations |