logarithmic scale

1. 1.

   scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers

   Broaderscale

Questions about logarithmic scale

What does logarithmic scale mean?

logarithmic scale means "scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers".

Is logarithmic scale a common word?

logarithmic scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.