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scale - the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; the scale of the map; the scale of the model. proportion - the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.
The smaller number of the fractional scale is the distance on the map, the larger number in the scale is the distance on the ground. So if we take our example scale (1:62500) we can choose units we want to measure distance in. Lets chose inches.