escala lineal

Phonetic: "/ˈlɪn.i.ə/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.

Definition: Of or relating to lines.

Definition: Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.

Example: a linear medium

Definition: (of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.

Definition: Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b .

Definition: A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).

Example: a linear meter

Phonetic: "/skeɪl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Definition: An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

Example: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

Definition: Size; scope.

Example: The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.

Definition: The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

Example: This map uses a scale of 1:10.

Definition: A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

Definition: A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

Definition: A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

Example: the decimal scale; the binary scale

Definition: Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

Definition: A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

Example: Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.

Phonetic: "/skeɪl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

Definition: To climb to the top of.

Example: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

Definition: To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

Example: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

Definition: To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.