lever scale

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   a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length

   Synonymssteelyardbeam scale

   Broaderbalance

Questions about lever scale

What does lever scale mean?

lever scale means "a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length".

What is another word for lever scale?

Close synonyms include steelyard, beam scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lever scale a common word?

lever scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.