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Act of making on a greatly reduced scale
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miniaturization
Word definitions for miniaturization in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, from miniaturize + -ation . Minification in this sense attested from 1904, on analogy of magnification .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 the act or process of miniaturizing or making smaller 2 something that has been miniaturized or made smaller n. 1 the act or process of miniaturizing or making smaller 2 something that has been miniaturized or made smaller
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. act of making on a greatly reduced scale [syn: miniaturisation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
miniaturization \miniaturization\ n. The act or process of making on a greatly reduced scale. Syn: miniaturisation.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Miniaturization ( Br.Eng. : Miniaturisation ) is the trend to manufacture ever smaller mechanical, optical and electronic products and devices. Examples include miniaturization of mobile phones , computers and vehicle engine downsizing . In electronics ...
Usage examples of miniaturization.
There were indications that the Iraqi bioweapons program was very much alive, and was focusing more and more on viruses, on genetic engineering, and on miniaturization of the research and production processes - using tiny bioreactors that can be hidden in small rooms.
We are being deminiaturized now and that will be more time-consuming than the miniaturization, which took no more than three or four minutes.
If we expand to fill that cranium and then try to crumble the cranium by the effect of our miniaturization field, we will lose too much energy and deminiaturize explosively.
In „The Last Question,“ which appeared first in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly, I discussed the miniaturization and etherealization of computers and followed it through a trillion years of evolution (of both computer and man) to a logical conclusion that you will have to read the story to discover.
As a result of this miniaturization, computing power quadruples every 18 months and an exponential series ensues.
All of this was masked by the apparent large size of the satellite vehicles themselves, which effectively masked the jets and their fuel cells, and also masked the degree of miniaturization that the Chinese had been able to achieve in including these other packages onboard.
We are human beings and scientists and, in fact, if there were any discomfort that we felt, we would be compelled to describe it in full detail, since it might be that with modifications of the process we could remove that discomfort and make future miniaturizations less difficult.
In fact, it would be impossible to induce miniaturization in the first place, since the energy crammed into the miniaturizing object would leak away at once.
He had been miniaturizing atoms to get free, but such miniaturization required an input of energy.
It was he who had worked out the miniaturization process, he who seemed to detect a connection between Planck's constant and the speed of light, he who seemed to value Morrison's neurophysical theories, and he who made the remark about the computer as relay station that had apparently set off Konev's conviction that Morrison -- and only Morrison -- could help them.
What could neurophysics -- and a dubious, unaccepted bit of neurophysical work at that -- have to do with miniaturization?
What if miniaturization gave you the opportunity to study neurophysics as you have never studied it before -- as no one has ever studied it before?
Perhaps she thought that with your theories on neurophysics you could somehow help the Soviet push for miniaturization.
Frankly, I think the gravitational change with miniaturization is evidence enough that gravitation cannot be quantized, that it is fundamentally nonquantum in nature.
Morrison, with some effort, allowed for his own miniaturization and grasped the fact that the bulges were the ends of molecules (of phospholipids, he assumed) that made up the cell membrane.