spring scale

1. 1.

   a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring

   Synonymsspring balance

   Broaderbalance

Questions about spring scale

What does spring scale mean?

spring scale means "a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring".

What is another word for spring scale?

Close synonyms include spring balance. 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 spring scale a common word?

spring 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.