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downscale

downscale adjective: being downmarket, of a lower quality.

Adjective

downscale (comparative more downscale, superlative most downscale)

  1. Being downmarket, of a lower quality.
  2. Of a series of notes, falling in pitch in regular or musical intervals; descending.

Verb

downscale (third-person singular simple present downscales, present participle downscaling, simple past and past participle downscaled)

  1. To reduce in size; to downsize.

Forms of downscale

Adjective
comparativemore downscale
superlativemost downscale
Verb
third-person singular presentdownscales
present participledownscaling
past participledownscaled
pastdownscaled

Origin of downscale

From down- + scale.

Words formed from downscale

Questions about downscale

What does downscale mean?
Downscale means being downmarket, of a lower quality.
What part of speech is downscale?
Downscale can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near downscale in the dictionary

  1. downsamplers
  2. downsamples
  3. downsampling
  4. downsamplings
  5. downscalable
  6. downscale
  7. downscaled
  8. downscaler
  9. downscalers
  10. downscales
  11. downscaling

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