unscale

verb — 2 senses

unscale

verb

Etymology From un- + scale.

1

To remove scales from (a fish or snake).

  • [an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To undo a scaling transform upon.

  • Because OpenGL ES does not understand such a format, the vertex shader will then need to apply a matrix to unscale these values, which affects the vertex shading performance.2014, Dan Ginsburg, Budirijanto Purnomo, Dave Shreiner, OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide, page 457:
Related terms
descaler, scaler

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