MINISCULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miniscule mean? 

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

1. extremely small

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINISCULE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely small

Synonyms:

miniscule; minuscule

Context example:

a minuscule amount of rain fell

Similar:

little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

Finally, they shrink the structure to a miniscule size.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Transiting planets block a tiny fraction of starlight that produces miniscule dips in the brightness of their host star.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler - the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

Cassini's cosmic dust analyzer instrument repeatedly detected miniscule rock particles rich in silicon and the team concluded these particles must be grains of silica, which is found in sand and the mineral quartz on Earth.

(Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity, NASA)