Usually means: Multiplier that adjusts size proportionally.
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  1. scale factor: Vocabulary.com
  2. scale factor: Dictionary.com
  3. Scale factor (Universe), Scale factor (computer science), Scale factor (cosmology), Scale factor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. scale factor: Rhymezone
  5. scale factor: FreeDictionary.org
  6. scale factor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. scale factor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scale factor: Encyclopedia

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  1. Scale Factor: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. scale factor: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Scale Factor, Scale factor: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Scale factor)

noun:  The expansion of the universe is parametrized by a dimensionless scale factor .
noun:  In computer science, a scale factor is a number used as a multiplier to represent a number on a different scale, functioning similarly to an exponent in mathematics.


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