arbitrary scale

Actions such as hers are measured by an arbitrary scale.

Don't try to support arbitrary scale factors, just support one: double resolution.

An arbitrary scale expressing the gravity or density of liquid petroleum products.

Severity is a point on an arbitrary scale of intensity of the adverse event in question.

Readouts are normalized to an arbitrary scale, which may vary from one operator to another or between experiments.

Both indices use an arbitrary scale in which asbestos-cement board has a value of 0, and red oak wood has 100.

In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond, presented on an arbitrary scale.

The simple logistic function varies by less than 0.01 from the cumulative normal ogive across the range, given an arbitrary scale factor.

The system can be used with arbitrary scales, but Microsoft uses a scale from 0 to 50 for Xbox Live.

Each manufacturer used a different arbitrary scale to describe mainspring sizes, but these sizes are usually based on the French inch.

Hardness- Based on the arbitrary scale of hardness, the groundwater of the municipality ranges from soft to hard water.

"I have just set up a purely arbitrary scale of intelligence, assigning you, Father Forbin, the value of one hundred on that scale.

They have declined to establish colonies for human population groups who fail to measure up to their standards of ethnic dynamism or an equally arbitrary scale of metapsychic potential.

Together, these investigations of the correlated responses to adaptation to a specific environment demonstrate the mismatch between the arbitrary scales that we use to measure performance and real biological alternatives.

Inkscape, a free vector graphics editor, supports all 17 groups plus arbitrary scales, shifts, rotates, and color changes per row or per column, optionally randomized to a given degree.

Similarly, some measurements are naturally invariant to the choice of an arbitrary scale (i.e., it doesn't matter if we use centimeters or inches, we should get results that are physically the same).

In statistics, ordinal regression is a type of regression analysis used for predicting an ordinal variable, i.e. a variable whose value exists on an arbitrary scale where only the relative ordering between different values is significant.

Attributing significance to the phenotypical difference between the size or shape of men and women creates a binary between the two that allows the casual observer to presume social significance of a person in terms of this arbitrary scale.

While the zeroth law permits the definitions of many different empirical scales of temperature, the second law of thermodynamics selects the definition of a single preferred, absolute temperature, unique up to an arbitrary scale factor, whence called the thermodynamic temperature.

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, who supposedly invented the scale actually returned to composition with this, "arbitrary scale," in his "Ave Maria (sulla scala enigmatica)" (1889, revised 1898), in response to a challenge printed in the Milan Gazzetta musicale to employ a musical conundrum.

The second parameter in an extreme-value or logistic distribution is a scale parameter, such that if then This means that the effect of using an error variable with an arbitrary scale parameter in place of scale 1 can be compensated simply by multiplying all regression vectors by the same scale.

The statistical treatment of count data is distinct from that of binary data, in which the observations can take only two values, usually represented by 0 and 1, and from ordinal data, which may also consist of integers but where the individual values fall on an arbitrary scale and only the relative ranking is important.