minuscule
Collocations
4ADJ.
best, cursive, large, significant
VERB + MINUSCULE
writing
MINUSCULE + NOUN
axe, dot
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
A lowercase letter.
Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.
A letter in these styles.
adj
Written in minuscules, lowercase.
Written in minuscule handwriting style.
Very small; tiny.
a minuscule dot
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
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6By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.
Wiktionarya minuscule dot
WiktionaryIn America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, onl
WiktionaryThe amount of arsenic in the water is minuscule but significant.
Tatoeba · #8860454The difference is minuscule at best.
Tatoeba · #9564461The thrust of this spacecraft is minuscule.
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