miniaturize
Americanverb (used with object)
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From there we are led to what we are told is Henry’s camper, a fantastically cozy abode filled with miniaturize installations and hidden nooks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Trygstad used a new fabrication technique to miniaturize the actuator down to less than a milligram, the smallest ever known to have been made.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
“An advantage of this system is they could miniaturize it even more,” she says.
From Scientific American ● May 9, 2023
Experts say the test would shed more light on how far North Korea has advanced in its goal to miniaturize nuclear warheads to mount on tactical weapons aimed at South Korea or Japan.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Her ability to miniaturize standard party magic tricks — and have an 18-inch-tall marionette perform sleight-of-hand — left audiences baffled.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Ultimately, researchers hope quantum components can be miniaturized enough to be incorporated into everyday electronics.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
The set by Marsha Ginsberg presents a model of Cranberry, with its downtown buildings miniaturized in the style of an adult playhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
To the left, “Painting and Sculpture” clutches a palette while cradling a miniaturized replica of the Dionysus torso from the Parthenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
NuScale, in particular, “pioneered and miniaturized industry-standard light-water reactor technology,” which in turn lowers the bar for the use of the smaller plants in the future, Soderberg wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The wind was gusting, rolling clouds across the sky; the view was spectacular, the city miniaturized, utterly dwarfed by the chapel.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
For decades, shrinking photonic devices has been far more difficult than miniaturizing electronic components.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
At Karma, Nicolas Party dives into self-referentiality with a show in which he has made copies of his own work, miniaturizing his creations in oil-on-copper panels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The main engineering challenge will be miniaturizing the high-voltage conductor so it fits in the desired package but still supplies enough energy to the cathode so that the ions orbit fast enough to fuse together.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
To prepare, he spent the better part of a year perfecting and miniaturizing a four-camera, computer-coordinated system for high-speed filming.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2018
Bonsai is the Oriental Art of miniaturizing trees and plants into forms that mimic nature.
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
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