spring scales
Hook-and-dial measurer
Spring scales are weighing devices that measure weight by how much a spring stretches or compresses under load.
A hook or platform holds the object; the spring's displacement moves a pointer along a numbered scale.
Common in kitchens, fishing, and luggage weighing: He checked the fish on a spring scale before releasing it.
Less precise than balance scales but portable and quick.
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- weighingMeasuring mass or heft
- hookCurved catching device
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- hangingExecution by noose
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Device comparing two masses
beam balance · balance beam · digital scales · pan balance · steelyard
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