Etymology

misoscale

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Today it means: Having a scale of between 40 metres and 4 kilometres (or 130 feet and 2 miles). Full definition →

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Coined by Tetsuya T. Fujita on the basis of mesoscale; each successive vowel in the alphabet refers to a smaller size.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.