Unscale

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove scales from (a fish or snake). transitive

    "[an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance"

  2. 2
    To undo a scaling transform upon. transitive

    "Because OpenGL ES does not understand such a format, the vertex shader will then need to apply a matrix to unscale these values, which affects the vertex shading performance."

Synonyms

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descalescale

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"[an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance"

Etymology

From un- + scale.

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