## Meanings
1. The size or extent of something, especially when it is large.
2. A range of levels used for measuring or comparing.
3. The relationship between the size of a map or model and the real thing.
4. To climb up something high and steep.
5. To change the size of something according to a fixed proportion.

## Examples
- They had never seen destruction on such a scale.
- Please rate the service on a scale of one to ten.
- The map is drawn to a scale of one to fifty thousand.
- The climbers scaled the cliff before dawn.
- The plans were scaled down to save money.

## Derived Forms
- antiscalant
- antiscale
- autoscale
- bigscale
- blitzscale
- broadscale
- counterscale
- downscale
- eigenscale
- enscale
- exascale
- femtoscale

## Related Forms
- degree

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: scale
- Root: escale
- Root: skala
- Root: *skalō

## Etymology
From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.

## AI Etymology
Scale comes from Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Modern senses include the size or extent of something, especially when it is large. and a range of levels used for measuring or comparing.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antiscalant, antiscale, autoscale, bigscale, blitzscale, and broadscale and related forms such as degree.

## Topics
- Mathematics & Measurement

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