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It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.
Renny Harlin

Meaning of "miniscule" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MINISCULE

miniscule  [ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINISCULE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Miniscule is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINISCULE


bascule
ˈbæskjuːl
biomolecule
ˈbaɪəʊˌmɒlɪkjuːl
corpuscule
kɔːˈpʌskjuːl
crepuscule
ˈkrɛpəsˌkjuːl
fascicule
ˈfæsɪˌkjuːl
floscule
ˈflɒskjuːl
graticule
ˈɡrætɪˌkjuːl
groupuscule
ˈɡruːpəˌskjuːl
macromolecule
ˌmækrəʊˈmɒlɪˌkjuːl
macule
ˈmækjuːl
majuscule
ˈmædʒəˌskjuːl
minuscule
ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl
molecule
ˈmɒlɪˌkjuːl
monticule
ˈmɒntɪˌkjuːl
opuscule
ɒˈpʌskjuːl
oscule
ˈɒskjuːl
reticule
ˈrɛtɪˌkjuːl
ridicule
ˈrɪdɪˌkjuːl
saccule
ˈsækjuːl
spicule
ˈspɪkjuːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINISCULE

minischool
miniseries
minish
miniskirt
miniskirted
minister
Minister for Education and Employment
Minister of Health
minister of state
Minister of the Crown
minister plenipotentiary
minister resident
Minister without portfolio
ministeria
ministerial
ministerialist
ministerially
ministering angel
ministerium
ministers plenipotentiary

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINISCULE

aedicule
animalcule
calycule
floccule
gram molecule
homuncule
lenticule
locule
lodicule
opercule
poeticule
scrobicule
self-ridicule
silicule
submolecule
supramolecule
ventricule
vermicule
vocule
wheel animalcule

Synonyms and antonyms of miniscule in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «miniscule» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINISCULE

Find out the translation of miniscule to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of miniscule from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «miniscule» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

微乎其微
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

minúscula
570 millions of speakers

English

miniscule
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

miniscule
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضئيلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

незначительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

minúsculo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতি ক্ষুদ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

minuscule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Miniscule
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

winzige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非常に小さい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조금만
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Miniscule
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rất nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அற்பமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिस्कूल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

minik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minuscolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

malutkie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незначний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

minuscul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απειροελάχιστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minuscule
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

världsdelen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

miniscule
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of miniscule

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINISCULE»

The term «miniscule» is regularly used and occupies the 57.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINISCULE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about miniscule

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QUOTES WITH «MINISCULE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word miniscule.
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Renny Harlin
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINISCULE»

Discover the use of miniscule in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to miniscule and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sudden stories: the Mammoth book of miniscule fiction
Fiction. The stories in this book are all 350 words or less, give or take a few words.
Dinty W. Moore, 2003
2
Coxeter Matroids
In general, if the Bruhat order on W/P is a lattice, then P is a so-called miniscule weight parabolic subgroup. The definition is as follows: Let Q be a simple Lie algebra; its irreducible representation is called miniscule if its weights are conjugate ...
Alexandre V. Borovik, Izrail M. Gelfand, Neil White, 2003
3
At the threshold of the visible: miniscule and small-scale ...
In surveying this legacy, the collection presents the work of younger artists who draw on the history of Conceptualism with mischievous absurdity, in many cases hinting that art gains significance as it comes close to disappearing, ...
Ralph Rugoff, Susan Stewart, 1997
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Linear Algebraic Monoids
Mλ and Mλ are equal if and only ifλ is a miniscule weight. His proof requires an application of the results of [21]. The proof also requires the result [45] of Kannan on the projective normality of the wonderful compactification. Miniscule weights ...
Lex E. Renner, 2006
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Handbook for translators of Spanish historical documents
miniscule. hand.10. After the period of Roman domination, Spain fell to the Visigoths, who brought their handwriting with them. Their own hand, however, had been greatly modified by their prolonged contact with Roman culture in the Gauls.
Juan Villasana Haggard
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The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete ...
Do the lexicographers at American Heritage subconsciously favor miniscule? Could what appears to be an innocuous typo in fact be an instance of subliminal advertising, a devious attempt to encourage us to use the "alternative" spelling?
Charles Harrington Elster, 1999
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
See maximum. minions of the law is a CLICHfi referring to police officers or other law-enforcement officers. miniscule is one of the commonest misspellings in legal texts, the correct spelling being minuscule. E.g., "There has recently come into ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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Primary English: Extending Knowledge in Practice
Theworditself isoften spelt miniscule, by association with the unrelated word miniatureand the prefixmini. Thisis traditionally regardedas aspelling mistake, but isnow so commonthat dictionaries tend toaccept it asa spelling variation.
David Wray, Jane Medwell, 2008
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The Foundations of Conditional Probability
I will call these "empty events", to distinguish them from miniscule events in general, and to emphasize that the set of epis- temic possibilities for the agent that are consistent with these events is empty. These sorts of arguments rest on the idea ...
Kenneth Krishnan Easwaran, 2008
10
Does The Universe Need Me?:
Why would the universe dispense that which is miniscule simply because it is miniscule? Whether or not the universe can dispense on the basis of something being miniscule is unknown. Certainly humans are capable of dispensing of the ...
Raphael Dorsainvil, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINISCULE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term miniscule is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ant-Man's Miniscule Mission
What should have been fun ended up overinflated with too much awkward Disney moralizing. Ant-Man's miniscule mission first got expanded, ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Jul 15»
2
FDA Food Safety Challenge winners develop innovative …
This innovation uses miniscule filters to capture small numbers of foodborne pathogens in large volumes of liquid suspensions. Pronucleotein ... «FDA.gov, Jul 15»
3
Irish Times to judge: stop Rupert Murdoch from using Ireland title
... in the state, both in terms of hard copy and its digital edition, while the London Times has a “miniscule” 0.5% of newspaper sales in Ireland. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Mobile Cities and Creepy Creatures in Civilization: Beyond Earth …
Pan-Asian Cooperative leader Daoming Sochua sent me a communique at one point to bemoan my miniscule population. Fielding, meanwhile ... «GameSpot, Jul 15»
5
Muddy Physics: Why Puddles Stop Spreading
These intermolecular forces are miniscule, but when a film of liquid becomes nearly as thin as molecules, the research team's new calculations ... «Science 2.0, Jul 15»
6
ORNL Researchers Make Scalable Arrays of 'Building Blocks' for …
Today's transistors are miniscule—a mere 10 nanometers wide—and formed from three-dimensional (3D) crystals. But a disruptive new ... «Newswise, Jul 15»
7
Rand range-bound ahead of inflation data
On that occasion, the data had a miniscule impact on the rand within an hour of the publication release. Hence, we do not expect a large market ... «BDlive, Jul 15»
8
Struggling Shane Greene leads Tigers against Mariners
His ERA, once a miniscule 0.39 after his first three starts, has ballooned to 6.32 and has increased for five straight appearances. «WDIV Detroit, Jul 15»
9
Meet the French startup set to revolutionize the Internet of things
Twelve bytes is miniscule, but it's more than enough to send a set of GPS coordinates from a tracking device, a reading from a remote sensor or ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
10
Cardinals blast Danville
Junior Garcia, meanwhile, improved to 3-0 and lowered his ERA to a miniscule 0.37 with four shutout innings of relief for Greeneville. Princeton ... «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Miniscule [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/miniscule>. May 2024 ».
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