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scale bar
Segment of known length placed on the image to give its scale.
barre d'échelle
Segment de longueur connue posé sur l'image pour en donner l'échelle.
Obligatoire sur toute micrographie ou carte : la légende chiffrée seule ne survit pas au recadrage.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
Sources (9)
17 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
- Beautiful evidence
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data visualization handbook
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/scale-bar.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. scale bar. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/scale-bar.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-scale-bar,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {scale bar},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/scale-bar.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-11-09. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.