MINIATURIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miniaturize mean? 

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

1. design or construct on a smaller scale

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINIATURIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they miniaturize    ... he / she / it miniaturizes   
Past simple: miniaturized   
Past participle: miniaturized   
-ing form: miniaturizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Design or construct on a smaller scale

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

miniaturise; miniaturize

Hypernyms (to "miniaturize" 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)

miniaturization (act of making on a greatly reduced scale)

 Context examples 

Includes R&D and integration of ultra-miniaturized top-down processes and increasingly complex bottom-up or self-assembly processes.

(Nanomanufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

The processing techniques, such as deposition, etching, and patterning, that are utilized to produce miniaturized structures and devices with feature sizes and resolution in the micron domain.

(Microfabrication, NCI Thesaurus)

The miniaturizing technology, called implosion fabrication, could be applied to anything from developing smaller microscope and cell phone lenses to creating tiny robots that improve everyday life.

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