unscale

Verb

unscale (third-person singular simple present unscales, present participle unscaling, simple past and past participle unscaled)

1. (transitive) To remove scales from (a fish or snake).
   • [an eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance1644, 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. (transitive) To 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