rescale
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of rescale
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The set, by David Korins, betrays those origins too, consisting of little more than a miniature proscenium to rescale expectations and a black stool straight from your local Komedy Korner.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The Portuguese eventually went public in suggesting this group of players may have overachieved last season, largely courtesy of his own input, given how many were finding it hard to rescale those heights.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2016
Logarithmic functions can help rescale large quantities and are particularly helpful for rewriting complicated expressions.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
The friends get out, get dressed, and rescale the fence, only to discover that Dan is no longer with them.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
Here, about two hours later, Colonel Macdonell, Brock's aide, collected and reformed the scattered units, and made another bold dash to rescale the heights and retake the redan.
From The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Nursey, Walter R.
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 ● Feb. 11, 2026
Yet the way the show rescaled the dimensions of a headlining festival gig felt like a radical provocation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
It was an ironic turn: this balletic child of revolution and Romanticism was now rescaled to imperial grandeur.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
An off-axis viewing angle larger than about 30° is also suggested by the expected rate of the joint gravitational-wave and Fermi-GBM detection24 rescaled to the actual observations.
From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017
The larger version has been artificially rescaled to approximate the correct dimensions.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos
You get a number of options to edit the screenshot, including rescaling.
From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2022
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 ● Jun. 3, 2022
"This is a rescaling of work to reflect market forces that were anticipated but that have accelerated and are affecting the entire industry."
From Reuters ● Dec. 4, 2014
It's also typically lost when the original file is altered, for example by the resizing, rescaling, compression, cropping and even enhancements social media often apply to posted images.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2014
In the case of the 1990 statistics, the rescaling was the same as expressing the numbers as percentages of the citywide totals for that crime.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 4, 2011
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