unscale

present singular third person unscales · participle present unscaling · participle past unscaled · past unscaled

1. transitiveTo remove scales from (a fish or snake).

   [an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance

   1644, 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

   Synonyms: scale, descale

2. transitivecomputingTo 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