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Definition: Sliding Scale |
Sliding ScaleNoun1. A wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sliding Scale A schedule of payment which slides up and down as the article to which it refers becomes dearer or cheaper. In government duty it varies as the amount taxed varies. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A method of paying for the coal in proportion to the amount of lump coalit contains. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sliding Scale |
| English words defined with "sliding scale": slide, swoop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sliding scale": circular-shear operator ♦ ring-shear operator, ROTARY-SHEAR OPERATOR ♦ Valorem. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Of course, it's a sliding scale. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Incentives for some projects are offered on a sliding scale, depending on the amount of investment. (references) |
Worker Rights | Swaziland | There is a legally mandated sliding scale of minimum wages depending on the type of work performed. (references) |
Algeria | Workers who work beyond the standard workweek receive premium pay on a sliding scale from "time and a half" to "double time," depending on whether the overtime is worked on a normal work day, a weekend, or a holiday. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sliding scale insulin | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sliding scale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkallëzim dinamik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подвижна скала. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητή κλίμακα, αναλογική κλίμακα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mozgó skála. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scala mobile (escalator, threshold agreement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 伸縮法 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"しゅくほう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idingslay alescay скользящая шкала. (various references) pomična skala. (various references) escala móvil. (various references) rörlig skala. (various references) yürüyen skala, fiyata göre resim uygulanan tarife, değişken ölçek. (various references) lương (emolument), giá cả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-s-s" | |
-2 letters: anglicised, anglicises, declassing, signalised. | |
-3 letters: algicides, anglicise, dailiness, diallings, discasing, diseasing, glandless, gliadines, glissandi, salicines, sciaenids, signalise, signalled. | |
-4 letters: acidness, ainsells, alcidine, algicide, allicins, assigned, caginess, callings, cedillas, ceilings, classing, dealings, dialings, dialling, gainless, galleins, glacises, gladness, glassine, gliadine, gliadins, glissade, gneissic, laciness, laicised, laicises, landless, leadings, leasings, sailings, salicine, salicins, sanicles, scalding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 64 69 6E 67 53 63 61 6C 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i d i n g   S c a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 0064 0069 006E 0067 0053 0063 0061 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378757075807325369677871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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