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What is "scale down"

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scale down

vb. 1 To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion 2 To reduce the cost of a process, or the amount spent on something

WordNet
scale down

  1. v. reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down" [ant: scale up]

  2. make smaller; "reduce an image" [syn: reduce] [ant: blow up]

Usage examples of "scale down".

Indeed, place this reversed skull (scale down to the human magnitude) among a plate of men's skulls, and you would involuntarily confound it with them.

And Henry knew that any government that tried to scale down its launch program would suffer massive civil unrest.

He added that all portions of the country have suffered their setbacks and Chase Industries currently faces a scale down of its operations due to reduced demand.

He set the scale down on the laboratory bench and looked over at Dr.