Hypernyms for "scale"
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armor plate
armor plating
armour plate
balance
Beaufort scale
chromatic scale
dander
dandruff
diatonic scale
fish scale
gamut
gapped scale
horseshoe
index
logarithmic scale
Mercalli scale
Mohs scale
moment magnitude scale
plate armor
plate armour
Richter scale
shell plating
shoe
squama
squamule
temperature scale
vernier
vernier scale
wage scale
wage schedule
weighbridge
wind scale
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.