LOGARITHMIC SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logarithmic scale mean? 

• LOGARITHMIC SCALE (noun)
  The noun LOGARITHMIC SCALE has 1 sense:

1. scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers

  Familiarity information: LOGARITHMIC SCALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGARITHMIC SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("logarithmic scale" is a kind of...):

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)

 Context examples 

The total relative probability, expressed on a logarithmic scale, that a linkage relationship exists among selected loci.

(LOD Score, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of optical density expressed as the absorbance of light transmitted through the medium on the logarithmic scale.

(Absorbance Unit, NCI Thesaurus)