the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass |
worthless material that is to be disposed of | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
| a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
| relative magnitude |
| the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it |
| an ordered reference standard |