scaling factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscaleandfactor
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scale
noun
uk/skeɪl/us/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofscaleandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This can be predicted from the proposedscalingfactor.
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We fix an r > 1 (thescalingfactor, see below).
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This competition determines the morphology of the interaction and the validity of thescalingfactor.
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Solutions are then independent of animal numbers, apart from ascalingfactor.
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For example, for double-bond stretching, thescalingfactorused is 0.973.
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Thescalingfactorwas calculated by regression and set to 0.0212.
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The free parameter in this fitting procedure was the verticalscalingfactor.
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Apart from ascalingfactor, only these four quantities were adjusted to achieve this.
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This is ascalingfactoronly and plays no part in determining the invariance under gauge transformations.
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The last term is ascalingfactorthat we introduce to keep the defocusing effects into account.
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The forcescalingfactor, which is used in the system at this point of development, is 100.
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In fact, the overtaking time has a non-trivial distribution around thescalingfactor, which we determine explicitly.
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It is also worth noting that all the trajectories can be deduced from one another by applying ascalingfactor.
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The par ticipant's formant values are then multiplied by thescalingfactorto produce the normalized values.
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Last year, thescalingfactorwas 0.9979, which was reasonable.
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The ratio of these words' frequencies in the adult lexicon to their frequencies in the child lexicons was then used as ascalingfactor.
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In the current implementation, a min-max approach was used to determine the utility function, so that thescalingfactorwas the ideal vector.
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However, the great similarity of the molecular fragments makes it possible to use onescalingfactor per type of vibration, determined from the nexp/ntheory obtained for glycine.
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This algorithm uses a fixed-length rectangular stepping window and a simple peak alignment criterion to track the local naturalscalingfactorand adapt the window step size.
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Thescalingfactoris designed to help to pay for the cost of the floors.
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He asked about thescalingfactor; he will know that that was applied before these figures were announced.
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Why suddenly has thescalingfactorbeen chopped by such a dramatic amount, leading to considerable cuts?
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