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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miniaturize.

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Examples

  • Joe Fig miniaturizes artist's studios into hyper-realistic models, Japanese artist Tabaimo's animated video installation "danDAN" imagines a cross-section of a housing complex, and Gregory Euclides creates small landscapes, some viewed via pinholes.

    Don't Miss: Dec. 24-30 2011

  • Not every organ system miniaturizes the same way, and the disparity causes malfunctions.

    The Long and Short of It Steve Perry 2010

  • This conjunction of and conflict between realism and the Gothic miniaturizes the novel's own two-way plot.

    Drood 2009

  • This conjunction of and conflict between realism and the Gothic miniaturizes the novel's own two-way plot.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • Politics miniaturizes large complex problems at home while maximizing threats from abroad.

    The end of American empire -- closer than we think? 2009

  • The television, in a sense, contains and miniaturizes what has happened in New York.

    Floor Remarks of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Expediting Benefits for Public Safety Officers 2001

  • Clare miniaturizes and (further) vulgarizes Byron's apostrophes to cash, begging his imaginary reader for "a single pound" in exchange for the single manuscript that cannot undergo a Byronic alchemy into gilded coats.

    Like 1999

  • In fact, when that air de-miniaturizes, it will be much larger in volume than Benes.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • The Scepter instrument miniaturizes Coulter cell counting technology found in much larger instruments into a portable device the size of an automated pipette.

    Medgadget Wouter Stomp 2010

  • The Scepter instrument miniaturizes Coulter cell counting technology found in much larger instruments into a portable device the size of an automated pipette.

    Medgadget Wouter Stomp 2010

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