graduated scale
41wage scale — noun a schedule of wages paid for different jobs • Syn: ↑wage schedule • Hypernyms: ↑scale, ↑scale of measurement, ↑graduated table, ↑ordered series • Hyponyms: ↑slidin …
42Mercalli scale — noun 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 • Topics: ↑geology • Hypernyms: ↑scale, ↑scale of measurement,… …
43Gunter's scale — noun A scale graduated in several lines for numbers, logarithmic sines, etc, so arranged that trigonometrical problems can be roughly solved by use of a pair of compasses, or in another form by sliding • • • Main Entry: ↑gunter * * * Gunter s… …
44Plane scale — Plane Plane, a. [L. planus: cf. F. plan. See {Plan}, a.] Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. [1913 Webster] Note: In science, this word (instead of plain) is almost… …
45graphic scale — A graduated line by means of which distances on the map, chart, or photograph may be measured in terms of ground distance. See also scale …
46Brix scale — noun Etymology: Adolf F. Brix died 1870 Austrian scientist Date: 1897 a hydrometer scale for sugar solutions so graduated that its readings at a specified temperature represent percentages by weight of sugar in the solution called also Brix …
47chain scale — noun : an engineer s or draftsman s scale graduated in inches that are subdivided by 10 and multiples of 10 …
48gamut — Scale Scale, n. [L. scalae, pl., scala staircase, ladder; akin to scandere to climb. See {Scan}; cf. {Escalade}.] 1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed… …
49History of cartography — The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter Cartography (from… …
50Pei Xiu — Chinese t=裴秀 s=裴秀Pei Xiu (224 ndash;271) was a minister, geographer, and cartographer of the Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period of China, as well as the subsequent Jin Dynasty. Pei Xiu was very much trusted by Sima Zhao, and… …
