Minuscule
adjective
Very small in size or amount.
She wrote in minuscule handwriting that was hard to read.
Often appears as...
- minuscule amount
- minuscule detail
noun
A lowercase letter.
The letter 'a' is an example of a minuscule.
Often appears as...
- roman minuscule
- carolingian minuscule
adjective
Very small in size or amount.
She wrote in minuscule handwriting that was hard to read.
Often appears as...
- minuscule amount
- minuscule detail
noun
A lowercase letter.
The letter 'a' is an example of a minuscule.
Often appears as...
- roman minuscule
- carolingian minuscule
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Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Tiny
Imagine something very small to grasp 'minuscule'. This emphasizes its tininess.
The bug was so minuscule, I almost didn't see it on the leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Triviality
When something is 'minuscule', it's often so small that it can seem insignificant or negligible.
The chances of winning the lottery are minuscule.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantify with Care
'Minuscule' is subjective but implies a smaller quantity than 'small'.
She received a minuscule portion of the cake compared to the others.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Tiny
Imagine something very small to grasp 'minuscule'. This emphasizes its tininess.
The bug was so minuscule, I almost didn't see it on the leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Triviality
When something is 'minuscule', it's often so small that it can seem insignificant or negligible.
The chances of winning the lottery are minuscule.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantify with Care
'Minuscule' is subjective but implies a smaller quantity than 'small'.
She received a minuscule portion of the cake compared to the others.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Tiny
Imagine something very small to grasp 'minuscule'. This emphasizes its tininess.
The bug was so minuscule, I almost didn't see it on the leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Triviality
When something is 'minuscule', it's often so small that it can seem insignificant or negligible.
The chances of winning the lottery are minuscule.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantify with Care
'Minuscule' is subjective but implies a smaller quantity than 'small'.
She received a minuscule portion of the cake compared to the others.
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Is time travel possible?...
with some super-accurate atomic clocks that were synchronized with some others left on the ground. After the plane had flown around the world, the clocks on board showed a different time from those left behind. Of course, at the speed of trains and planes, the effect is minuscule. But the faster you go, the more time dilates.
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Light waves, visible and...
and that everything else was completely invisible to you. As it turns out, that's how you live your life all the time because your eyes can only see a minuscule part of the full spectrum of light. Different kinds of light are all around you everyday but are invisible to the human eye,
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The otherworldly...
to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane.
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The case of the...
Here are three of the possible offenders. Exhibit Pests and Disease. Most infamous is the varroa mite, a minuscule red pest that not only invades colonies and feeds on bees, but also transfers pathogens that stunt bee growth and shortens their life span.
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How many universes are...
But even that number is minuscule compared to another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite, and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing?
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Questions No One Knows...
But even that number is minuscule compared to another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing?
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
well but it seems the ants of sometimes you know they do take them by surprise and by the time the soldiers of the of the of the termites have been activated it's a little bit too late well from the Predators of the tiny minuscule world
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A radical plan to end...
until China stopped taking everyone's waste. And the price of plastic, minuscule that it was, collapsed. That led to people like her, which, now -- she is a child who is a schoolchild. She should be at school.
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How do geckos defy...
Each spatula only contributes a minuscule amount of that van der Waals stickiness. But a gecko has about two billion of them, creating enough combined force to support its weight.
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Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
hundreds of miles nutrients churned up by the storm feed clouds of microscopic plants phytoplankton minuscule green worlds a
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Is time travel possible?...
with some super-accurate atomic clocks that were synchronized with some others left on the ground. After the plane had flown around the world, the clocks on board showed a different time from those left behind. Of course, at the speed of trains and planes, the effect is minuscule. But the faster you go, the more time dilates.
Video examples
Light waves, visible and...
and that everything else was completely invisible to you. As it turns out, that's how you live your life all the time because your eyes can only see a minuscule part of the full spectrum of light. Different kinds of light are all around you everyday but are invisible to the human eye,
Video examples
The otherworldly...
to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane.
Video examples
The case of the...
Here are three of the possible offenders. Exhibit Pests and Disease. Most infamous is the varroa mite, a minuscule red pest that not only invades colonies and feeds on bees, but also transfers pathogens that stunt bee growth and shortens their life span.
Video examples
How many universes are...
But even that number is minuscule compared to another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite, and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing?
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
But even that number is minuscule compared to another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing?
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
well but it seems the ants of sometimes you know they do take them by surprise and by the time the soldiers of the of the of the termites have been activated it's a little bit too late well from the Predators of the tiny minuscule world
Video examples
A radical plan to end...
until China stopped taking everyone's waste. And the price of plastic, minuscule that it was, collapsed. That led to people like her, which, now -- she is a child who is a schoolchild. She should be at school.
Video examples
How do geckos defy...
Each spatula only contributes a minuscule amount of that van der Waals stickiness. But a gecko has about two billion of them, creating enough combined force to support its weight.
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Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
hundreds of miles nutrients churned up by the storm feed clouds of microscopic plants phytoplankton minuscule green worlds a
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Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
The cost of the vaccine is truly minuscule when you think about the benefits you're getting from an opportunity-cost standpoint. If you're going to miss several days of work - and you will - with high fevers, body aches, nausea, and vomiting... you're going to be losing out on a lot more money and productivity if you don't get the flu shot.
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Samin Nosrat
American Chef
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.
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Zephyr Teachout
American Lawyer
Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.
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Karl-Anthony Towns
American Athlete
All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule - joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish - that is what builds camaraderie.
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Jamie Wyeth
American Artist
The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
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Adam Davidson
American Journalist
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Neale Donald Walsch
American Author
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
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Dr. Dre
American Musician
The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
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Robert Vaughn
American Actor
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
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Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
The cost of the vaccine is truly minuscule when you think about the benefits you're getting from an opportunity-cost standpoint. If you're going to miss several days of work - and you will - with high fevers, body aches, nausea, and vomiting... you're going to be losing out on a lot more money and productivity if you don't get the flu shot.
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Samin Nosrat
American Chef
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.
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Zephyr Teachout
American Lawyer
Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.
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Karl-Anthony Towns
American Athlete
All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule - joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish - that is what builds camaraderie.
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Jamie Wyeth
American Artist
The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
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Adam Davidson
American Journalist
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Neale Donald Walsch
American Author
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
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Dr. Dre
American Musician
The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
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Robert Vaughn
American Actor
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
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