MINIATURISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miniaturise mean? 

• MINIATURISE (verb)
  The verb MINIATURISE has 1 sense:

1. design or construct on a smaller scale

  Familiarity information: MINIATURISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINIATURISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they miniaturise    ... he / she / it miniaturises   
Past simple: miniaturised   
Past participle: miniaturised   
-ing form: miniaturising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Design or construct on a smaller scale

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

miniaturise; miniaturize

Hypernyms (to "miniaturise" is one way to...):

reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

miniature (a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size)

miniaturisation (act of making on a greatly reduced scale)

 Context examples 

Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturised device that could image single cells without the need for a microscope or make chemical fingerprint analysis possible from within a smartphone camera.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)