RESCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescale mean? 

• RESCALE (verb)
  The verb RESCALE has 1 sense:

1. establish on a new scale

  Familiarity information: RESCALE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCALE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rescale    ... he / she / it rescales   
Past simple: rescaled   
Past participle: rescaled   
-ing form: rescaling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Establish on a new scale

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "rescale" is one way to...):

resize (change the size of; make the size more appropriate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rescale"):

scale down (reduce proportionally)

scale up (increase proportionally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something