0 small, especially when compared to other things like it: --
2 not involving a lot of people, things, or activity, or happening over a small area: --
small-scale agriculture/farming/production
They have initiated a small-scale feasibility study.
The rural population consists mostly of small-scale farmers and wine producers.
Existing small-scale industry is more flexible but often trapped in low profit/low innovation competition.
The conservation significance of small-scale eco-forestry, therefore, is that groups ostensibly set aside 1,000 hectares of tropical lowland rainforest for the next 50 years.
In each regression in table 2, the dependent variable is the fraction of manufacturing employment that is in small-scale plants.
For small-scale perturbations the results obtained in the previous sections are valid.
This high energy gain, as well as the large-amplitude wakefield, the turbulent small-scale electron plasma waves, and the formation of large current peaks, are studied.
However, (3.1) shows clearly that the total energy is conserved and is composed of the part stored in small-scale and largescale structures.
Farmers' markets play a vital role in enabling small-scale farmers to gain direct access to customers.
All these functional, ecological and economic linkages of waterlogged rice agroecosystems have made the rice-fish farming technique a sustainable component of small-scale rural aquaculture30.
You can hardly imagine two such contrasting scales and models of work - mass utilitarian production alongside small-scale, personal, and exclusive exploration.