platform scale

noun

1. a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.

Example Sentences

“You’re going to see the amount of exclusive content on our platform scale pretty rapidly,” Buser says.

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In the 1800s, the Fairbanks brothers moved to town, earning their fortune through the invention and production of the platform scale; they founded a museum, athenaeum and academy, all operating to this day.

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By combining AOL’s and Yahoo’s user bases with its own customers, Verizon hopes to accumulate some two billion users—a number that Armstrong thinks is necessary to be a viable platform. “Scale is as imperative now as it’s ever been,” he told Recode after the Yahoo purchase was announced.

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When the stock of gas in the cylinders is almost depleted the pressure falls but it is always preferable to determine the stock by standing the cylinders on a platform scale and weighing at regular intervals.

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Thaddeus Fairbanks built the first platform scale in Vermont in 1830.

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