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    scale /ˈboʊfərt/ is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale...
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    54°32′36″N 3°18′49″W / 54.5432°N 3.3135°W / 54.5432; -3.3135 Scale Force is considered the highest waterfall in the English Lake District. Opinions...
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    Other types of scales making use of different physical principles also exist. Some scales can be calibrated to read in units of force (weight) such as...
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  • A spring scale, spring balance or newton meter is a type of mechanical force gauge or weighing scale. It consists of a spring fixed at one end with a...
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    No. 62 Commando or the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) was a British Commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The unit was formed...
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    (9 July 1914 – 13 July 1943) was a British commando in the Small Scale Raiding Force in the Second World War. Hayes was the son of Herbert Charles and...
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    The Brinell scale /brəˈnɛl/ characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the scale of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material...
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    The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on indentation hardness of a material. The Rockwell test measures the depth of penetration of an indenter...
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    mediated by different force carriers in each one. On a scale less than about 0.8 fm (roughly the radius of a nucleon), the force is carried by gluons and...
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    The Kardashev scale (Russian: Шкала́ Кардашёва, romanized: Shkalá Kardashova) is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement...
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  • This is a list of scale model sizes, listing a variety of size ratios for scale models. Super Series - 1:1400 Scale, Modern Brands website (accessed 2017-06-21)...
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    A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which...
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    19th century, the full extent of the large scale interaction of pressure-gradient force and deflecting force that in the end causes air masses to move...
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    winds did not exceed force 10 on the Beaufort scale and a Cyclone where the winds are either force 11 and 12 on the Beaufort scale. Between 1924 and 1988...
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  • and Fujita scales as the Tornado Force or TF Scale. In 2007 in the United States, the Enhanced Fujita Scale replaced the original Fujita Scale from 1971...
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    Friction is a force that opposes relative motion of two bodies. At the macroscopic scale, the frictional force is directly related to the normal force at the...
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  • Magnitude scales measure the inherent force or strength of an earthquake – an event occurring at greater or lesser depth. (The "Mw" scale is widely used...
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    Roman times, scale armour (lorica squamata) was a popular alternative to mail (lorica hamata) as it offered better protection against blunt force trauma. Hellenistic-Attic...
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    the normal force vector can be found by scaling the normal direction by the net surface interaction force. The surface interaction force, in turn, is...
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    proportional to a force loading, as in 1 cm to 1000 newtons: this is an example of a dimensional scale. A weather map at some scale may be annotated with...
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    locations currently or imminently experiencing winds of gale force on the Beaufort scale. Gale warnings (and gale watches) allow mariners to take precautionary...
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    In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the...
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    smaller scale, in relief missions, especially after the deadly Cyclone Nargis of May 2008. The Myanmar Air Force (MAF) was formed as the Burmese Air Force on...
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  • _{GUT}} , or the GUT scale, is the energy level above which, it is believed, the electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force become equal in strength...
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  • The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or Mw  or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of...
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    Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). Force Reconnaissance companies unlike USMC division reconnaissance report to the Marine expeditionary force (MEF) and provide...
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  • The microscopic scale (from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós) 'small' and σκοπέω (skopéō) 'to look (at); examine, inspect') is the scale of objects and events...
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  • commonly classifies scales as either hemitonic or anhemitonic. Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones, while anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones...
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    PH (redirect from PH Scale)
    denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen"). It is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of aqueous solutions. Acidic solutions...
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  • would be the distance where a Yukawa force is mediated by the weak vector bosons. The magnitude of weak length scale was initially inferred by the Fermi...
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