scale factor

1. 1.

   a number used as a multiplier in scaling

   Broadermultiplier

   Narrowertime-scale factor

Questions about scale factor

What does scale factor mean?

scale factor means "a number used as a multiplier in scaling".

Is scale factor a common word?

scale factor 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.