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scale and was
That world was in scale with my own smallness.
The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.
The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).
An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.
The rating scale of compulsivity was constructed by first perusing the interview records, categorizing all evidence related to compulsivity, then arranging a distribution of such information apart from the case records.
Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.
This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.
The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The Bessemer process was able to produce the first large scale manufacture of steel.
On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.
After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.
It followed from the principles on which this scale was constructed that its zero was placed at − 273. 15 ° C, at almost precisely the same point as the zero of the air-thermometer.

scale and modelled
The Japanese built their ancient capitals, Heijokyo ( today's Nara ) and later Heian-kyo or Kyoto, modelled after Chang ' an in a more modest scale yet was never fortified.
These standards are generally the same for such elements as track gauge, scale ratio, couplings, and electrical power and differ for clearances and other factors that are specific to the prototype being modelled.
Broader than standard gauges have been modelled using P4 standards, including Brunel's gauge, modelled with 28. 08mm grauge track and Irish P4, the Irish broad gauge modelled in P4 in 4mm scale with gauge track.
They are all modelled in 4mm to 1 foot scale ( 1: 76 ), and run on track of 18mm gauge, a combination known as EM gauge.
No. 60010 has been modelled in OO scale by Hornby twice ; once in 1994-95 as a limited-edition model and once again in 2010.
Built for King Charles II of England by Sir Christopher Wren from 1683, the King's House stood on a site adjoining the castle it was to replace, and modelled after the Palace of Versailles, though on a somewhat smaller scale.

scale and off
At the beginning of the 20th century, Detroit's industrialization took off on an unprecedented scale.
On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.
Others were kidnapped by the Taliban, touching off a hostage crisis that nearly escalated to a full scale war, with 150, 000 Iranian soldiers massed on the Afghan border at one time.
To shorten the scale length, other strings were added with a different tension and pitch so one string took over where another left off.
Although the average Martian surface atmospheric pressure is less than one percent of Earth's, the much lower gravity on Mars increases the atmosphere's scale height ; in other words, Mars's atmosphere is expansive and does not drop off in density with height as sharply as Earth's.
International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage.
On August 19, 1977, an earthquake measuring 7. 0 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 316 people, including islands off the West coast.
The answer, 6, is read off the bottom scale where 3 is on the top scale.
Operations may go " off the scale ;" for example, the diagram above shows that the slide rule has not positioned the 7 on the upper scale above any number on the lower scale, so it does not give any answer for 2 × 7.
Position the 7 on the CI scale above the 2 on the D scale, and then read the result off of the D scale, below the 1 on the CI scale.
Their maneuvers and the results of their battles were calculated via a complex mathematical formula, with scale distances marked off with tape measures.
In layman's terms, the signal is going " off the scale ".
The Sri Lankan Civil War which raged on and off from 1983 to 2009, between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) saw large scale asymmetric warfare.
Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747 aircraft, is found and salvaged off Cork, Ireland during the first large scale deep water ( 6, 200 feet ) air crash investigation.
In 2008 Dexa Systems spun off from Schlumberger and acquired Enterprise Security Services business, which included the smart card solutions division responsible for deploying the first large scale public key infrastructure ( PKI ) based smart card management systems.
Just off the seafront is Southsea Model Village which is a 1 / 12 scale model village with forty miniature buildings, houses, forts, castles and a miniature railway.
Simply living off of scavenged canned food from London shops is not a viable survival strategy on a scale of years.
Already in the late 1980s, some common services once set up in the expectation of economies of scale, such as the Property Services Agency or the Crown Suppliers, were being dismantled or sold off.

scale and topographical
His tours resulted in creating a detailed topographical map at a scale 1: 56, 000.
It also contains a complete set of topographical maps, in the most detailed scale ( 1: 25 000 ).
* Road map: two sheets published on a scale of 1: 200. 000, but not the same as the topographical 1: 200. 000, as it lacks contour lines.
He used this technique to make a scale plan with the help of the army topographers, who made a series of topographical recreations of the landscape.

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