scale

noun1 of 2

a device that is used to weigh a person or thing

• “The true scale of the universe is hard to grasp.”Tatoeba
• “We had hopes of developing tourism on a big scale.”Tatoeba

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verb2 of 2

To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.