Most other U.S. states have similar initiatives, such as Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In New York state, the MOLST form is a New York State Department of Health form (DOH-5003). MOLST is for patients such as a terminally ill patient, whether or not treatment is provided.
Scale is most often used in architectural sketches, paintings, drawings and other artistic mediums. Artists create scales for drawings to correctly show the size relationship between objects. For example, an artist may decide that 1 inch is equivalent to 10 feet.
Definition of scale. 1  1a : a small, flattened, rigid, and definitely circumscribed plate forming part of the external body covering especially of a fishb : a small thin plate suggesting a fish scale scales of mica the scales on a moth's wingc : the scaly covering of a scaled animal.