miniature

They placed 26 individuals of six different species in cages overnight and inserted the equivalent of miniature rectal thermometers into their cloacas.

Each one is a miniature universe in which the roof is the sky and a vertical post, called “the seat of the sun,” aligns with the sun’s rays every day at noon.

They’ll need miniature medical devices that fit on the spacecraft.

Instead, they use matrices with entries taken from miniature, or “modular,” number systems.

Scientists have been working on miniature needles for years.

She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.

A representative assembly, John Adams wrote in 1776, “should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large.”

Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.

As I stood over the mud barracks, my translator zeroed in on a miniature mud tank complete with a detailed main gun and top hatch.

For next to no money, the photographer Christine McConnell makes cakes and cookies that are their own miniature horror movies.

To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.

The Countess drew a beautiful miniature from its case, which lay on the sofa near her, and presented it to her young charge.

One satisfactory way is by the use of a miniature buzzer transmitter.

Here and there the miniature forests of doura stood up almost still in the sunshine.

She was examining the ornament on the back of which was carved a miniature bar of music, with three or four notes.