LARGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larger mean? 

• LARGER (adjective)
  The adjective LARGER has 1 sense:

1. large or big relative to something else

  Familiarity information: LARGER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large or big relative to something else

Synonyms:

bigger; larger

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

We have a story of a flight and a descent by ropes which precluded the production of larger specimens.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a second line of steamers which connect South Australia with England, but we will draw the larger cover first.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

C-peptide and insulin are both part of a larger molecule that gets split apart before being released into the blood.

(C Peptide, NCI Dictionary)

The beautiful, kind eyes are larger, and in them lies an expression that saddens one, although it is not sad itself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Benign tumors may grow larger but do not spread to other parts of the body.

(Benign, NCI Dictionary)

The smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them, for I have known a larger at the gate of a gentleman’s house in England.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A coded value specifying a subdivision within a larger category of a protocol deviation.

(Performed Protocol Deviation Subcategory Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Such nanoscale objects — typically, though not exclusively, with dimensions smaller than 100 nanometers — can be useful by themselves or as part of larger devices containing multiple nanoscale objects.

(Nanotechnology, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is part of a larger protein called MUC 1.

(CA 27.29, NCI Dictionary)

These two planets may be part of a larger system.

(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)