He rārangi hei whakaatu inenga. Hei tauira, ko te rūri hei whakaatu inenga roa, ko te āwhata o te ine-mahana hei whakaatu paemahana, ko te ine-koki hei ine i te rahi o tētahi koki, ko te āwhata kei te tuaka o tētahi kauwhata. Ka whakaaturia te waeine ki te āwhata, ā, koia te tawhiti mai i tētahi tauwhata o te āwhata ki te tauwhata e whai mai ana.
A line for showing a measurement, such as on a ruler for the measurement of length, the scale on a thermometer for showing temperature, a protractor for measuring the size of an angle, and the scale on an axis of a graph. The relevant unit of measurement is shown and that is the distance from one point on the scale to the following point.
