desk-size
Americanadjective
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Joynt showed a short video he took on his phone of a crew member using iron pegs and a hammer to shear off the end of a desk-size chunk of rock.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
Why were there no other visitors gawking at the immense, desk-size timepieces, covered with gilt figurines, dating from the Baroque era?
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself—a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter.
From Time ● Feb. 10, 2011
One immediate byproduct: a new generation of small, desk-size minicomputers as well as larger, high-speed machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
By working on in his shop long after closing hours, Hanson had a desk-size model of the space-brain robot ready for Tom's inspection when the young inventor arrived at the plant early the following morning.
From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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