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Scale or scales may refer to:
==Mathematics== Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original Scale factor, a number which scales, or multiplies, some quantity Long and short scales, how powers of ten are named and grouped in large numbers Scale parameter, a description of the spread or dispersion of a probability distribution Feature scaling, a method used to normalize the range of independent variables or features of data Scale (analytical tool)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.