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scale
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Scale
Payment of different rates of interest on CDs of varying maturities. A bank is said to "post a scale." Commercial paper dealers also post scales.
scale
The schedule of yields (or prices) at which a serial bond issue is offered to the public by the underwriter. The schedule reflects yields at the various maturities being offered. Also called offering scale. See also inverted scale, preliminary scale.
scale

The relationship between measurements on a plan or map and the dimensions of the physical object represented.One inch might represent 10 feet or 10 miles.Topographic maps contain two scales,one for distance and one for change in elevation.



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This scale, known as the centigrade scale became widely spread.
The Travellers Temperature Predicaments (Part 1) by Wacek Kijewski / Automotive community
the Celsius scale to produce the centigrade scale which recognises freezing point to be 0 degrees and boiling point to be 100 degrees" (Bellis, 2005).
Measuring temperature: the thermometer: Mirvette Chamoun looks at the ... by Chamoun, Mirvette / Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom
I have been brainwashed with the Centigrade scale for most of my adult life, but 99 degrees Fahrenheit still makes me feel like taking my clothes off in a way that the equivalent Centigrade temperature never will.
Tony Parsons column: Fahrenheit puts Celsius in the shade by The Mirror (London, England)
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