Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To design or construct on a smaller scale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
design orconstruct something on aminiature scale
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb design or construct on a smaller scale
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Examples
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I had posted on my blog about this guy earlier this month, and began to think about how to take the immense library of oblique imagery we were capturing from planes and 'miniaturize' them in this way.
Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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Of course, this software is not going to duplicate what an expensive lens can do, but I found it fun to manipulate some photos from my archives and 'miniaturize' parts of the photos.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mel Martin 2010
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People who have them say there is just one problem - small they may be but breeders forgot to "miniaturize" their appetite as well, so most of the time they are insatiably hungry and have been known to raid fridges, cupboards and larders in their unrelenting quest for food.
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Of course, this software is not going to duplicate what an expensive lens can do, but I found it fun to manipulate some photos from my archives and 'miniaturize' parts of the photos.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mel Martin 2010
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Yes, I make it a point to never miniaturize the look of my genitals in photos. four12
TiltShift Makes Your Photos Look Like Miniatures | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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He just wanted to diminish, miniaturize it until it vanished.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Maybe you could miniaturize the projections, speed them up, and run hundreds or thousands of copies in parallel — a massive engine of moral value!
Morel’s Machine 2009
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He just wanted to diminish, miniaturize it until it vanished.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Our research is motivated by the fact that microscopes have been around since the 16th century, and yet their basic design has undergone very little change and has proven prohibitively expensive to miniaturize.
Television 2010
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"The main challenge is to basically miniaturize the whole system so it's very fast and requires a very small amount of samples," IBN Executive Director Jackie Ying said.
MicroKit Simplifies Infectious-Disease Detection Sam Holmes 2011
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