logarithmic scale

基本解释

That's because quake magnitudes are calculated on a logarithmic scale.
这是因为地震级数是按对数计算的。
These vertical bars indicate my uncertainty in measurements of thickness and the horizontal scale, which is a logarithmic scale...
厚度的不确定度,由这些竖条表示,而水平刻度，则用对数刻度。
But plot the data another way, on a logarithmic scale where each increment represents a 100% increase in income per head, and the relationship between wealth and happiness looks more robust.
但是按照另外一种方式——对数汇编数据，每一点工资上涨都会百分之百地转化为人均收入的增长，财富和幸福之间关系似乎更加紧密。

So, this is several months and this logarithmic scale on the Y-axis represents antibody concentration.
这是在几个月内,这里使用的是对数刻度,Y轴代表的是抗体的浓度
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For example, it is some hundredths (yes, the Richter Scale is a logarithmic one, so 0.5 is hundreds of times smaller than 3.0, which is the level at which you might actually feel something on the surface) of the level at which a human being might even note an earthquake.
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