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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unscale en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + scale.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove scales from (a fish or snake).
    • [an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
  2. (transitive) To undo a scaling transform upon.
    • 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. 2014, Dan Ginsburg, Budirijanto Purnomo, Dave Shreiner, OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide, page 457:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unscaling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unscaled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unscaled Tense=Past lexicographic
unscales Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Coordinates

deskin · debone · bone · unbone · skin

Relateds

scaler · descaler

Synonyms

scale · descale