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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-profile
adjective
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▪ If you have a low-profile computer without a free drive bay, you may have no choice but to replace the original.
▪ It packs all its power into a compact, low-profile configuration - occupying 30% less desk space than comparable 486 systems.
▪ This has enabled a low-profile firm to have one of the highest profiles in terms of revenues.
▪ Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
low-profile

1957, in reference to automobile wheels, from low (adj.) + profile (n.). General sense by 1970, American English, in reference to Nixon Administration policy of partial U.S. disengagement from burdensome commitments abroad.

Usage examples of "low-profile".

Conforming to the latest stealth technology developed at the Anger Institute, its fuselage, wings, and low-profile V-shaped stabilators consisted of a series of gentle curves none of which reflected enough radar to be visible even on phased-array or lookdown radar systems.

Your sister Spirit has become the backbone of your effort to organize a truly competent and low-profile antipirate force.

It was a paragon of low-profile architecture, caramel-coloured bungalows cast haphazardly around a two-storey administration building, the complex veined with stone pathways and flower beds, half shaded by the spreading branches of coast live oak.

They all had the high-g, low-profile look of these short, stocky, prominently muscled joggers who chugged by on the riverwalks and esplanades like some primitive but powerful steam machines.

Spencer was working in Kasei Vallis, which was a kind of new Korolyov, a security town, very sophisticated and at the same time very low-profile.