SCALE DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scale down mean? 

• SCALE DOWN (verb)
  The verb SCALE DOWN has 2 senses:

1. reduce proportionally

2. make smaller

  Familiarity information: SCALE DOWN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALE DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduce proportionally

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The model is scaled down

Hypernyms (to "scale down" is one way to...):

proportion (adjust in size relative to other things)

rescale (establish on a new scale)

"Scale down" entails doing...:

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

scale up (increase proportionally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make smaller

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

reduce; scale down

Context example:

reduce an image

Hypernyms (to "scale down" is one way to...):

reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“Your man brought the scale down at thirteen-three, and Harrison at thirteen-eight.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These microscopes have bulky lenses and specialized optical components that are difficult to scale down and implement in a small, portable device.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)