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miniscule

/min-uh-skyool, mi-nuhs-kyool/US // ˈmɪn əˌskyul, mɪˈnʌs kyul //UK // (ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl) //

微不足道的,微不足道,微小的,小小的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : very small.
    • : small; not capital.
    • : written in such letters.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a minuscule letter.
    • : a small cursive script developed in the 7th century a.d. from the uncial, which it afterward superseded.

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Examples

  • In a preliminary study that has not yet been reviewed by other researchers, Ristenpart and his team found that homemade cotton masks can shed minuscule particles as people breathe.

  • They are highly susceptible to disturbances from everything from stray magnetic fields to the minuscule imperfections in the control electronics or materials used to build the device.

  • They predicted a similarly minuscule drop for September, to just over 10 percent.

  • Radioactivity revealed a new sort of energy, of vast quantity, hidden within the most minuscule components of matter — the parts that made up atoms.

  • Here and there, clumps of particles have created galaxies and stars, but these are just minuscule specks on an otherwise unblemished cosmic canvas.

  • An appearance here during his 1993 comeback tour was cancelled following minuscule ticket sales.

  • Hawking radiation for realistic black holes is a minuscule effect, and the bigger the black hole, the less radiation there is.

  • Out of that minuscule number of bisexual roles, only two were male characters.

  • The result is a far more advanced effort that features an investment in offices and staff that makes GOP efforts look minuscule.

  • Havens thinks that the cost differences for consumers will be minuscule, according to rough model calculations.

  • None the less it must be said for them that they take fairly good care of their minuscule quadrupeds.

  • But some confusions of letters occur frequently in copies of uncial originals, and others in copies of minuscule originals.

  • It is a large folio, finely written in a neat minuscule, mainly Saxon hand, with uncial initials in two columns.

  • It seemed highly unconvincing, later, because some long-delayed perception produced a reaction in the dinies' minuscule brains.

  • That's not a gigantic number, but it's not a minuscule one, either.