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scale factor

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scale factor [′skāl ‚fak·tər]
(engineering)
The factor by which the reading of an instrument or the solution of a problem should be multiplied to give the true final value when a corresponding scale factor is used initially to bring the magnitude within the range of the instrument or computer.


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This means that the correction or scale factor [eta] is approximately 2, which is applied to the temperature differential between the two bands and added to the more transparent 10.
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