scales
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On everyday scales, disorder — or entropy — tends to increase.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Grooms have shown Boston-based wedding planner Keri Ketterer Walter a specific tartan, a herringbone fabric swatch and “wallpaper that kind of looked like the scales of a trout” for decor inspiration, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Nordeen, meanwhile, is working with the compute team, which builds and scales Claude’s infrastructure.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Fallen fruit squishes under shoes as people walk back to the scales with their buckets full of red Bing and Brooks cherries, and yellow Rainiers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
