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miniaturise

miniaturise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of miniaturize.

Meaning of miniaturize

Verb

miniaturize (third-person singular simple present miniaturizes, present participle miniaturizing, simple past and past participle miniaturized)

  1. To design or construct something on a miniature scale.
  2. To physically shrink in size, i.e. through the use of a shrink ray.

Forms of miniaturise

third-person singular presentminiaturises
present participleminiaturising
past participleminiaturised
pastminiaturised

Questions about miniaturise

What is miniaturise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Miniaturise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of miniaturize.

Words near miniaturise in the dictionary

  1. miniatured
  2. miniatures
  3. miniaturing
  4. miniaturisation
  5. miniaturisations
  6. miniaturise
  7. miniaturised
  8. miniaturises
  9. miniaturising
  10. miniaturism
  11. miniaturist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miniaturise (page history and authors); miniaturize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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