logarithmic scale

基本解释

That's because quake magnitudes are calculated on a logarithmic scale.
這是因爲地震級數是按對數計算的。
These vertical bars indicate my uncertainty in measurements of thickness and the horizontal scale, which is a logarithmic scale...
厚度的不確定度,由這些竪條表示,而水平刻度，則用對數刻度。
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.
但是按照另外一種方式——對數滙編數據，每一點工資上漲都會百分之百地轉化爲人均收入的增長，財富和幸福之間關系似乎更加緊密。

So, this is several months and this logarithmic scale on the Y-axis represents antibody concentration.
這是在幾個月內,這裡使用的是對數刻度,Y軸代表的是抗躰的濃度
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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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