Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a modest scope or extent. 2 Drawn or constructed too small for much detail.
WordNet
adj. created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model"
limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, pocket-size, pocket-sized]
Usage examples of "small-scale".
Darkover include among others, dairy farming, certain types of animal husbandry, papermaking, manufacture of certain drugs, grain milling, weaving, dyeing, preparation of wines and certain distilled liquors, small-scale mining of platinum, gold, silver and some of the exotic metals, but nothing classifiable by TE standards as heavy industry.
It was a suburban backwater, half its units empty, the rest unobtrusive in their telemarketing and direct mail and small-scale manufactures.
Ours was but a small-scale, nineteenth-century repro of a castle, but the dearth of dungeons with manacled skeletons crumbling to dust was rather a sore point with me.
The New York Review of Science Fiction, John Kessel observed that contemporary mainstream fiction tends to shy away from larger perspectives and generalized implications, preferring to emphasize the minute evocation of specific places, people, and small-scale events, while sf continues to embrace a more generalized perspective, inviting broad metaphorical and symbolic readings, even in stories confined to familiar milieux and recognizable contemporary settings.
People engaged in mixed farming, with cattle, horses, and small native sheep grazing the hills, and small-scale cultivation of corn and hay in the straths, or valleys.
He could see Tanya, cowering by the communitas the other children cringed under the small-scale furniture.
And they would have been able to do some real work up here, instead of the small-scale make-work experiments they'd had to run: monitoring herself for drug metabolism by taking saliva samples, checking for radiation health with miniature dosimeters strapped to her body, checking her respiration during exercises on the treadmill, investigating the relationship between bone density and venous pressure by wearing dumb little tourniquets around her ankle.
And they would have been able to do some real work up here, instead of the small-scale make-work experiments they'd had to run: monitoring herself for drug metabolism by taking saliva samples, checking for radiation health with miniature dosimeters strapped to her body, checking her respiration during exercises on the treadmill, investigating the relationship between bone density and venous pressure by wearing dumb little tourniquets around her ankle .
It's entirely possible that the operation here is no more than a small-scale field test of a new technique for conquest.
White did a finger wave over the sensor on his hand pad and the small-scale holoproj images froze.
In particular, it will tell us just how the microverse relates to the macroverse, giving us the precise parameters for the dividing line between the small-scale quantum world of atoms and fundamental particles, and the larger-scale classical world of specks of dust upwards to galaxies and so on.
They had shown they could organize and coordinate small-scale efforts: the convoys to Jerusalem, Operation Iron Broom, and other local actions.
To the right an elaborate but small-scale mechanical system had plopped itself down to a debris-filled street.
He began with a small-scale, multispectral view of a many-kilometer-long area directly to the north of the island where the Marines had fought off the skinks.
Our small-scale guerrilla movements were becoming very hampered, almost paralysed: and a partisan's army's survival depends almost exclusively on mobility, flexibility and long-range reconnaissance.