Format and Scale

Format

Format noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Scale and format are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a noun "Format".

Scale noun - A device for measuring weight.

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Format and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Format" with "Scale", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

old	old format	old scale
musical	musical format	musical scale
full	full format	full scale
long	long format	long scale
Other adjectives: exact, similar, normal, usual, short, current, proper, single, simple, small, entire, new, general, larger, smaller, basic, different.

And in 2009, it temporarily switched to the "series of TV movies" format to allow the actors to follow up on other commitments that a full-scale TV schedule would conflict with.

Source: Irregular Series
The Sliding Scale Comic is a gaming webcomic in its infancy, drawn in a stick figure style and hosted under a blog format.

Source: Webcomic / The Sliding Scale Comic
To put it in layman's terms, there are twelve different notes in each octave, and each one of them has a major scale (along with a minor scale starting on a different note), and they each have some number of sharps or flats, and the circle diagrams them in an easy-to-reference format.

Source: Useful Notes / Circle of Fifths

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