SCALE OF MEASUREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scale of measurement mean? 

• SCALE OF MEASUREMENT (noun)
  The noun SCALE OF MEASUREMENT has 1 sense:

1. an ordered reference standard

  Familiarity information: SCALE OF MEASUREMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALE OF MEASUREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ordered reference standard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement

Context example:

judging on a scale of 1 to 10

Hypernyms ("scale of measurement" is a kind of...):

criterion; measure; standard; touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scale of measurement"):

Beaufort scale; wind scale (an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane))

index (a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number)

logarithmic scale (scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers)

Mercalli scale (a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII)

Mohs scale (a scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance)

Richter scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations)

moment magnitude scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake)

temperature scale (a system of measuring temperature)

wage scale; wage schedule (a schedule of wages paid for different jobs)