单词 | scaled-up |
释义 | > as lemmasscaled-up b. scaled-up: that has been increased proportionately in amount or size in all its parts. Similarly scaled-down. ΚΠ 1944 P. H. Wilkinson Aircraft Engines of World 38 The 12-cylinder 1,300 h.p. Jumo 211-J is a scaled-up version of the Jumo 210. 1947 A. E. Slater in A. C. Douglas Gliding & Advanced Soaring i. 12 The earliest recorded attempts to fly, as well as the legendary ones, usually began with an attempt to reproduce a scaled-up bird's wing, often to the extent of putting feathers on it, in the belief that such a structure was inherently able to keep itself up, once it got well aloft. 1953 Trans. Soc. Instrument Technol. 5 126/2 The pilot unit is not usually constructed unless the manufacturer is satisfied that he will eventually proceed to the erection of a full-scale plant. It is a scaled-down version of such a plant. 1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 49 B.S.A. cars..were virtually scaled-down Daimlers. 1973 Lebende Sprachen 18 7/2 Go-ahead for a scaled-up version of the engine giving a 30 percent increase in original thrust. 1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 19 Sept. 43/1 Anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing—on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula I speedster. < as lemmas |
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