small-scaleadj.

1851 J. W. Leather Let. 23 Aug. in Ordnance Surv. (Scotland): Copies Corr. 7 in Parl. Papers 1851–2 (H.C. 506) LIII. 455 If we want a small-scale map for the purpose of a general view, we can get it from the six-inch map by reduction, but we cannot get the six-inch from the one-inch.

1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 595 A very great deal of attention has been paid to the small or geographical work of the Survey... I fully endorse the view of my predecessor as to the importance of this small-scale work.

1934 J. Bygott Introd. Mapwork & Pract. Geogr. vi. 43 After inspecting even a small-scale relief map of Northern England..we realise that the longest rivers flow from the eastern slopes towards the North Sea.

1996 Holiday Which? Jan. 37/1 Map 1 is from a small-scale..national map of France.

1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 151 It is very fine..to connect one's own small-scale improvements, after this fashion.

1892 G. F. Millin Social Horizon ii. 16 It seems improbable that small-scale farming can possibly be the system of the future.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 35/1 The sole hope for the small scale grower—amateur or commercial.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 75/3 The disadvantages of small-scale farming heavily outweighed the advantages.

1995 New Scientist 9 Sept. 34/2 The WWF supports the rights of indigenous people..to hunt reindeer and arctic foxes on the grounds that their activities are relatively small-scale and environmentally sustainable.

1872 Eng. Mechanic 12 Jan. 435/1 It is much easier to make a small scale pipe do duty for a large one than vice versa.

1886 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 15 465 Eight or ten careful experiments on small scale machine [sic] for fiber stress necessary to produce permanent set in iron and steel pins.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 38/1 The front room in the basement is a small-scale reception room.

1947 K. S. Walker Brief for Ballet 19 Spectre, as small-scale a ballet as Petrouchka was large.

1989 Premiere Dec. 46/1 Steven Soderbergh's movie is small-scale—an erotic chamber drama shot in close-up.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Mar. (Arts & Leisure section) 14/1 The so-called MOD discs..are the familiar DVD's slimmed down, small-scale cousins.

1924 Science 19 Sept. 261/1 Our intuitive notion of time..is tenable only in large-scale physics, or macro-physics, but untenable in small-scale physics, or micro-physics.

1935 Discovery Mar. 78/1 The small-scale structure of the ice will be examined.

2007 I. Stewart Why Beauty is Truth xiii. 221 The small-scale structure of the universe..was described in extraordinary detail and with exquisite precision by quantum theory.