Usually means: Measurement system for weight, balance.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word scales:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. scales: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scales: Merriam-Webster
  3. the Scales: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Scales: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Scales, the Scales: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scales: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scales, scale's, scales: Wordnik
  8. scales: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Scales: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. scales: Wiktionary
  11. scales: Dictionary.com
  12. scales: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Scales (disambiguation), Scales (surname), Scales: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Scales: Rhymezone
  15. scales: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Scales: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. Scales: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. scales: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scales: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scales: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Scales: Legal dictionary
  3. Scales: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scales: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scales: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Scales: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  3. scales: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SCALES: Acronym Finder
  4. scales: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Scales: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scales: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Scales)

▸ noun:  A device for measuring weight.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.
▸ noun:  A small village in Aldingham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2772).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Kirkoswald parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5743).

Similar:
surmount, weighing machine, plate, descale, musical scale, scurf, scale leaf, shell, graduated table, ordered series, more...

Opposite:
weights, balances, measures, gauges, meters

Types:
bathroom, kitchen, postal, baby, luggage, gram, pound, ounce, more...

Phrases:
the scales, time scales, wage scales, fish scales, ordinal scales, more...

Adjectives:
different, small, spatial, large, various, white, point, clinical, multiple, interval, brown

Colors:
    green,     silver,     gold,     blue,     turquoise, more...



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Similar:
surmount, weighing machine, plate, descale, musical scale, scurf, scale leaf, shell, graduated table, ordered series, more...

Opposite:
weights, balances, measures, gauges, meters

Types:
bathroom, kitchen, postal, baby, luggage, gram, pound, ounce, more...

Phrases:
the scales, time scales, wage scales, fish scales, ordinal scales, ratio scales, temperature scales, minor scales, wechsler scales, likert scales, nominal scales, bud scales, musical scales, weighing scales, more...

Adjectives:
different, small, spatial, large, various, white, point, clinical, multiple, interval, brown

Colors:
    green,     silver,     gold,     blue,     turquoise, more...



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