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midscale

midscale adjective: neither downscale nor upscale.

Adjective

midscale (not comparable)

  1. Neither 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. Of 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 of midscale

From mid- + scale.

Questions about midscale

What does midscale mean?
Midscale means neither downscale nor upscale.
What part of speech is midscale?
Midscale is an adjective.

Words near midscale in the dictionary

  1. midsagitally
  2. midsagittal
  3. midsagittally
  4. Midsalip
  5. Midsayap
  6. midscale
  7. midscapular
  8. midscene
  9. midscream
  10. midsea
  11. midseason

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