0 little in size or amount when compared with what is typical or average:
Liqueurs are usually drunk in small quantities.
The number of women in parliament is pitifully (= extremely) small.
Only a small number of applicants are successful.
He's small for his age.
That jacket's too small for you.
1 A small child is a very young child that is older than a baby:
2 limited in the amount of an activity:
If you can help us in a small way (= to a limited degree) it would be greatly appreciated.
The government should give more help to small businessmen (= people whose businesses are of a limited size).
In general, a random orientation can not be shown to balance each of a large number of small cocircuits.
The connection weights are initialized to small random values.
The large number of small parties is usually explained in two ways.
The large numbers of small parties have only rarely brought about a crisis of governability, however.
The numbers illustrate that nationally there have been two strong parties and other very small ones.
However, the following proposition shows that the constant 1/6 in the density assumption cannot be replaced with a smaller constant.
The stage was cramped; the audience capacity was small; and the new theatre represented a severe financial liability to a very shaky opera company.
These blocks will be returned after extraction of small diameter cores of tissue for the production of tissue micro-arrays.
