scale-down

基本解释

The importance of scale-down in process characterization is also addressed.
也提到了规模缩小在工艺特性鉴定中的重要性。
In addition to general scale-down principles and parameters, the authors address specific problems and present some examples.
还有通用的规模缩小原则和参数，作者提到了具体的问题和存在的一些例子。
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What we call "Scale-DUO" (as in Scale -Down, -Up, -Out) is our platform ability to dynamically allocate more resources at a pretty fine level - to satisfy the current load.
我们所称的“Scale-DUO”（及Scale -Down, -Up, -Out），也就是平台能够非常精确地动态分配资源以满足当前负载的能力。

Melodies that are just running up and down a scale-- neighboring tones.
级进旋律是指在整个音阶的,相邻音符上跑动的旋律
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However, some scale-down physical buying emerged to help limit the downside, he continued.
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Still, Lesh said, gold does continue to find some scale-down buying.
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He also makes the point that the scale of write-down suggests substantial sums awry in the Autonomy accounting procedures and should be easy to characterize.
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If you scale down something, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be.