SCALE OF MEASUREMENT

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• SCALE OF MEASUREMENT (noun)

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 of earthquake intensity; 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 used to express the energy released by an earthquake)

temperature scale (a system of measuring temperature)

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