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 minuscule ['minәskju:l]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 小书写体, 小写字

a. 用小书写体的, 小写字的

[电] 微小的




    minuscule
    [ noun ]
    1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

      2. <noun.communication>
    2. a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

      3. <noun.communication>
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries

      2. <adj.all>
    2. lowercase

      3. <adj.all>
      little a
      small a
      e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    3. very small

      4. <adj.all>
      a minuscule kitchen
      a minuscule amount of rain fell


    Minuscule \Mi*nus"cule\, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr.
    minus less: cf. F. minuscule.]
    1. Any very small, minute object.

    2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial;
    a manuscript written in such letters.

    minuscule \minuscule\ adj. a.
    Of or relating to a minuscule[2] or of a script written in
    minuscules[2]; of the size and style of minuscules[2];
    written in minuscules[2]; minuscular.
    [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

    These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the
    earlier uncials. --I. Taylor
    (The
    Alphabet).

    1. Yet the Internal Revenue Service estimates that about 10,000 workers get the credit in their paychecks, a minuscule fraction of the more than 12 million families who get the credit when they file their tax returns.
    2. He said Family Media's staff is lean, with overhead costs that are minuscule compared with Time's.
    3. But such efforts are relatively minuscule: The Japanese researchers studying at MIT alone outnumber the U.S. researchers studying at all Japanese schools.
    4. The FDA restricts interstate shipment of corn that is contaminated with even a minuscule amount of aflatoxin if it is intended for human or animal consumption.
    5. Unknown to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that minuscule change introduced a 1-in-67 chance that the shuttle's five on-board computers wouldn't work in sync.
    6. "In my view the health risk of an apple that has been treated with Alar is nominal, is minuscule," he said.
    7. "The amount of maintenance they perform for us is minuscule, and very routine," he said.
    8. What has since been called the world's biggest ever margin call, following the Federal Reserve's minuscule monetary tightening last February, led to larger bond market declines than expected.
    9. The Galileo's electricity will be generated by decaying radioactive pellets of plutonium-238, which causes cancer and death in humans if inhaled in minuscule amounts.
    10. Those results, together with the fact that Proposition 103 had an advertising budget minuscule by comparison to the other measures, amount to a voter mandate for reform, said Roberti and Robbins.
    11. They said if the volatile energy and food sectors were removed, the April price advance was a minuscule 0.1 percent.
    12. Producers of beef and veal treat their cattle with hormones in order to make them grow faster, but U.S. regulatory officials say the quantities are minuscule compared with the amounts of the same hormones produced naturally by the human body.
    13. By itself, though, Catteau will not do much harm, even if it does go horribly wrong, since it only accounts for a minuscule proportion of Tesco's total sales.
    14. Two (Houston and Phoenix) started from a minuscule ridership base, while two others (Washington and Portland) count some bus/rail passengers twice.
    15. Greece should take a leaf out of Bulgaria's book and adopt the minuscule landlocked republic as a little sister. Even if one or both sides refuse to accept the compromise, the Security Council should still adopt it.
    16. To offset any U.S. decline, analysts say, Saab-Scania must raise its traditionally minuscule share in the home markets of its toughest European rivals.
    17. The yield on the 10-year government bonds known by the sadly tarnished name of 'gilts' is still 8.08 per cent, showing only the most minuscule improvement over the previous week.
    18. Revenue to date has been minuscule.
    19. B.A.T said the "minuscule" level of acceptances showed that Hoylake's proposals "are wholly unacceptable" to shareholders.
    20. In another report showing general weakness, the Labor Department said Thursday that productivity of American workers edged up a minuscule 0.2 percent in the April-June quarter after having fallen by 1.3 percent in the first three months of the year.
    21. Evidence also exists that some of these actions were initiated against minuscule subsidies and tiny dumping margins.
    22. A small, scorched lodgepole pine tree leans over a chart tracing the minuscule amount of rain that fell last summer, a period during which more than twice the average number of lightning strikes were also recorded.
    23. The unit once tried to order 500 telephones, only to have the AT&T manufacturing people laugh at the minuscule number.
    24. Even though a 1 percent jobless rate is minuscule by Western standards, the speed with which it materialized is alarming in a nation where joblessness was once officially non-existent, she said.
    25. Baird says its sales were minuscule, but market-makers say that firm's clients were nonetheless the major buyers of First Capital IX.
    26. But analysts conceded that these sums are minuscule compared with the daunting tasks East European countries face in transforming their inefficient economies, modernizing industrial plants and alleviating enormous pollution problems.
    27. "The money is minuscule compared to the problem," Charles Hollister, marine geologist and vice president of an oceanographic center in Woods Hole, Mass., told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
    28. The defense savings did not go to reduce federal deficits, which were minuscule by today's standards and of minor political significance.
    29. Since then it has ensured that he remains far more popular than his party. The proportion of voters who blame him for the economic recession is minuscule.
    30. "The number of minority judges sitting in those counties is minuscule," said William L. Garrent, a Dallas lawyer.
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