midscale

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adjective

Neither downscale nor upscale.

OriginEnglish scale ← Middle English scale ← Latin scāla →
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Meanings

adjectivemidscale (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebusinessNeither downscale nor upscale.

    Travelocity[…] recently discovered that 85 percent of road travelers book midscale or upscale hotels.

    2007 October 29, Bob Tedeschi, “Travel Sales Still Growing, but Numbers of Customers Are Declining”, in New York Times
  2. not comparablecomputingOf middling size.

    A typical midscale database can contain scores of tables that contain supporting or special-purpose data.

    2011, Paul Turley, Dan Wood, Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
  13. Proto-Italic*skand-slā
  14. Latinscāla
  15. Middle Englishscale
  16. Englishscale
  17. Englishmidscale

From mid- + scale.

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Cite this entry
APA

midscale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midscale

MLA

“midscale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midscale. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “midscale,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midscale.

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