Used in a Sentence

scales

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scales.

Editorial note

Open pay scales are a start, but non-transparent salaries can easily hide in there if all you have is pay scales.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A device for measuring weight.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scales gathered in one view.

noun

A device for measuring weight.

noun

A surname.

noun

An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scales.

noun

A device for measuring weight.

noun

A surname.

noun

An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.

noun

A hamlet in Kirkoswald parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5743).

Example sentences

1

Open pay scales are a start, but non-transparent salaries can easily hide in there if all you have is pay scales.

2

Just because ideas have failed spectacularly in some places and on some scales doesn't mean they don't work well elsewhere.

3

Hiring in sciences basically scales with available federal grants for research, which basically scales with the success of liberal politics.

4

You will become a key player in how the company scales and contribute to the leadership of our company.

5

It gives you the scale you want and it's easier to convert to scientific scales like Celsius and Kelvin.

6

These revisions can be tested at smaller scales just by running the rules in private spaces.

7

When there's surplus wind energy, Sweden and Norway scales back on hydro and import from Denmark and Germany (through Denmark) instead.

8

Our SRE team scales thousands of deployed systems using smart programmatic methods that we design, architect, and code.

9

The official government pay scales are orderly and consistent--consistently lower than private sector pay.

10

Historically collecting good data in economics has been painstakingly slow, especially in large scales.

11

For example, Windows has the ScaleWindowExtEx function, which scales a window by some rational number, expressed as the ratio of two ints.

12

Hopefully your revenue exponentially scales to cover the linear expense as your team grows.

Quote examples

1

We have parts of our mind/body "stack" that are able to operate and change on all time scales and levels of persistence.

2

For an artificially structured system of agreed upon rules that are in everyone's best interest to optimize for prosperity, "human time scales" and emotional memory, in economic systems, should have little influence.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use scales in a sentence?

Open pay scales are a start, but non-transparent salaries can easily hide in there if all you have is pay scales.

What does scales mean?

A device for measuring weight.

What part of speech is scales?

scales is commonly used as noun.