platform scale

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noun

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

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Also called platform balance.

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How to use platform scale in a sentence

Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
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He created his own crowd-funding platform for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which has yet to be launched.
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And it must make sure that the platform of debate where we can freely exchange ideas is safe and sound.
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The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
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So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.
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A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Analysis and practice in preparation are the steps over which we must climb to the platform of power.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton