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miniature

[min-ee-uh-cher, -choor, min-uh-cher] / ˈmɪn i ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈmɪn ə tʃər /


NOUN
tiny thing
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Air Force for chemical propulsion can also successfully power miniature electric thrusters known as electrospray thrusters.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Without fail, the miniature version of me would blubber at Sully the polka dot monster reuniting with Boo, and Marlin the clownfish traversing the ocean to find his son.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Our exchange was almost wordless but totally understood, and felt like the trip in miniature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A historic Glasgow building which was destroyed in a major fire has been recreated in miniature by an artist.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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