Word.ws English Dictionary

unscaling

unscaling is the present participle and gerund of unscale.

Meaning of 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

Questions about unscaling

What is unscaling the present participle and gerund of?
Unscaling is the present participle and gerund of unscale.

Words near unscaling in the dictionary

  1. unscalded
  2. unscale
  3. unscaleable
  4. unscaled
  5. unscales
  6. unscaling
  7. unscalloped
  8. unscalped
  9. unscaly
  10. unscammable
  11. unscamped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unscaling (page history and authors); unscale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unscaling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unscaling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.