Scale in a sentence

A musical scale represents a division of the octave space into a certain number of scale steps, a scale step being the recognizable distance (or interval ) between two successive notes of the scale.

A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale, and a scale ordered by decreasing pitch is a descending scale.

Economies of scale and returns to scale Economies of scale is related to and can easily be confused with the theoretical economic notion of returns to scale.

For angles from around 5.7 up to 90 degrees, sines are found by comparing the S scale with C (or D) scale; though on many closed-body rules the S scale relates to the A scale instead, and what follows must be adjusted appropriately.

For example, aligning the rightmost 1 on the C scale with 2 on the LL2 scale, 3 on the C scale lines up with 8 on the LL3 scale.

Position the 7 on the CI scale above the 2 on the D scale, and then read the result off of the D scale below the 1 on the CI scale.

Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods above, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods.

There is a large Garde Scale layout in the lower level, and O scale and HO scale layouts on the main floor.

A natural minor scale has the same notes as its relative major scale, but is built starting from the sixth note of the relative major scale.

An auxiliary scale is a scale other than the primary or original scale.

If the lens includes a DOF scale, the hyperfocal distance can be set by aligning the infinity mark on the distance scale with the mark on the DOF scale corresponding to the f -number to which the lens is set.

Major scale main The major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales.

Naming the notes of a scale In many musical circumstances, a specific note of the scale is chosen as the tonic —the central and most stable note of the scale, also known as the root note.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at +73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about −240 on the Celsius scale.

Other scale systems * Natural overtone scale, a scale derived from the harmonic series.

Scale jet engines Scale jet engines are scaled down versions of this early full scale engine Also known as miniature gas turbines or micro-jets.

Some cameras have the DOF scale not on lens barrel, but on focusing knob or dial; for example, the Rolleiflex TLR has its DOF scale on the focusing knob; the subminiature camera Tessina has DOF a scale on the focusing dial.

Specific intervals are the interval class or number of semitones between scale steps or collection members, and generic intervals are the number of diatonic scale steps (or staff positions) between notes of a collection or scale.

Taking any major scale, a new scale is obtained by taking a different degree of the major scale as the tonic.

The first step is to merge and scale these various images, that is, to identify which peaks appear in two or more images (merging) and to scale the relative images so that they have a consistent intensity scale.