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to scale

Speech parts

1. to scale - Adjective

2. to scale - Phrase

Meaning

to scale

Drawn, designed or constructed such that each dimension has the same proportion to the original.
The one-metre-long model of the Bismarck was built exactly to scale, with moving turrets.
Maps of the solar system are often not drawn to scale due to the vast distances between the planets.

to-scale (not comparable)

(of a drawing or a model) with a uniform reduction or enlargement in each dimension
A site plan is a to-scale drawing.
Draw a three-dimensional, to-scale picture of the item you explored.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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to-scale

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