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Great scale

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(Mus.) the complete scale; - employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest.

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Hence no one has ever composed a poem on a great scale in any other than heroic verse.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
They are fashioned of hard-burned little bricks, red, with black ends, so that the walls look like a chess-board upon a great scale.
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Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
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