1º_ It is a ladder, although it is used almost exclusively for rope ladders or vertical ladders that are fixed to a wall. From the Latin scala ("ladder"). 2º_ Inspired by the previous one, it is a type of graduation, where ascending (and descending) values of the same class are recognized, such as a color scale or a musical one. Also for the first, is a linear mark representing magnitudes, like a ruler for measuring distances. A particular case is the scale on plans or maps, a line that represents in a reduced but proportional form a much larger real measure and that serves to assess size relationships. They are usually written as "1 : actual measure" and , p . e.g. , 1 : 100 would mean that "one part in the drawing represents one hundred parts in the original". 4º_ By the above, and in a broad sense, estimation of the scope and proportions of an idea or project. 5º_ Each intermediate stop on a journey before reaching the destination. From Greek 963; 954; 945; 955; 945; (skala "port") which Italian incorporated as scala and from there passed into Spanish. 6th_ Inflection of the scalar verb . See verbs/scale.