rescale

American

[ree-skeyl] / riˈskeɪl /

verb (used with object)

rescaled, rescaling

to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest.

to rescale a budget.

Etymology

Origin of rescale

First recorded in 1940–45; re- + scale ³

Example Sentences

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Sub-hunting is difficult in part because seas are vast: If the Arctic Ocean were rescaled to the volume of Russia’s largest submarine, that same submarine would be the size of a couple grains of sand.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet the way the show rescaled the dimensions of a headlining festival gig felt like a radical provocation.

From Los Angeles Times

The Edit button will take you to a fairly useful app that lets you perform such basic tasks as cropping and rotating, rescaling, annotating, or tweaking the lighting.

From The Verge

In Dr. Tao’s rescaling, a $100 million line item in the budget became equivalent to a $3 expenditure for the family.

From New York Times

Some projects had to be rescaled, due to pandemic complications on shipping, with some architects sending plans for Italian artisans to construct projects out of locally sourced materials.

From Seattle Times

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