rescale

[ ree-skeyl ]

verb (used with object)

, re·scaled, re·scal·ing.

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

   to rescale a budget.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rescale¹

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

Example Sentences

Before moving further, let’s rescale the field and the speeds.

From FiveThirtyEight

One way to rescale them was to say that the lowest-scoring player at each position was worth 0 points, and that every 25 “original” points were worth 1 “rescaled” point.

From FiveThirtyEight

To better make sense of this, it was helpful to rescale all the expected point values, as solver Johnny of Toronto, Canada, did.

From FiveThirtyEight

In the next step one would rescale momentary utility to transform the profiles so as to achieve the same ranking.

From The Daily Beast

Then only was the opportunity theirs to rescale a sky that was reserved for prelates and rajahs.

From Project Gutenberg