to revise the scale of, esp. to make smaller or more modest
to rescale a budget
Word origin
[1940–45; re- + scale3]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airlift, redline, set-aside, update, whiteout
Examples of 'rescale' in a sentence
rescale
The final step is to rescale the points so that the relative positions are maintained.