0 to make a very small version of something, especially using modern technology:
New technology continues to miniaturize computer components.
The key to miniaturizing the pacemaker was the development of the transistor.
I don't miniaturize objects, but I love the intimacy of small paintings.
It's proven to be a little more difficult than was anticipated to miniaturize the machinery.
Developers wanted to use available commercial parts but that limited how much they could miniaturize the robots because the parts generally are part of a packaged unit or system.
The great technical problem of such a system is the critical mass of a fission chain reaction, making it difficult to miniaturize a fission explosion.
It could miniaturize her, objectify her, and bring her safely home from the park to the palm of the hand.
Tertiary glyphs are generally associated with lesser elite titles, miniaturized script, and identification of iconography.
True, life was miniaturized into a genetically directed activity of molecules already in the 1930s; the protein master-molecule was perceived as both origin and outcome.
But their prototype machine is somewhat large (540 mm x 540 mm x 500 mm) so it cannot be called a miniaturized manufacturing system.
