SMALL-SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small-scale mean? 

• SMALL-SCALE (adjective)
  The adjective SMALL-SCALE has 2 senses:

1. created or drawn on a small scale

2. relatively moderate, limited, or small

  Familiarity information: SMALL-SCALE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL-SCALE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Created or drawn on a small scale

Context example:

a small-scale model

Similar:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relatively moderate, limited, or small

Synonyms:

minor; modest; pocket-size; pocket-sized; small; small-scale

Context example:

a pocket-size country

Similar:

limited (small in range or scope)

 Context examples 

Small-scale testing (usually on SBIRs) of new technology in a small group of patients or normal volunteers.

(Clinical Testing, NCI Thesaurus)

In the absence of observational evidence for such small-scale clumps, some researchers have developed alternative theories, including "warm dark matter."

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

These include supporting local, small-scale fisheries and reorienting the global fish trade towards better and more equal distribution of catches.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)

But, both commercial and small-scale beekeepers lost 33 percent of their honey bee colonies between April 2016 and April 2017.

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)

This small-scale study of 20 adult volunteers, conducted by researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), is the first randomized controlled trial examining the effects of ultra-processed foods as defined by the NOVA classification system.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

Individual geysers were found to coincide with small-scale hot spots, only a few dozen feet (or tens of meters) across, which were too small to be produced by frictional heating, but the right size to be the result of condensation of vapor on the near-surface walls of the fractures.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)