short scale

English

Etymology

Calque of French échelle courte.

Noun

short scale

1. A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term. (i.e., a billion is a thousand million.)

Related terms

• long scale

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: escala curta f
• Esperanto: mallonga skalo
• French: échelle courte (fr) f
• Italian: scala corta f
• Portuguese: escala curta f
• Spanish: escala corta f

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