Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Smaller than miniature; exceedingly small.
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- adjective
Compact orsmaller thanminiature .
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Examples
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Contemporary subminiature cameras are much smaller, of course, and many of them have gone digital.
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For this application there is no need for subminiature cameras, although these are even easier to hide.
Boing Boing: November 9, 2003 - November 15, 2003 Archives 2003
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He found himself in a subminiature RV, a miracle of condensation that featured a bathroom, a refrigerator and gas stove, and a closet stuffed with funky clothes along the lines of the outfit Miss Gorell was wearing when she died.
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Does anyone in the great outside know, for instance, that Ted Mundy is a master of the subminiature camera, with a failure rate of less than nine percent in eight years and literally thousands of exposures?
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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Smuggling out subminiature film cartridges presented no problem unless he was intimately searched.
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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He found himself in a subminiature RV, a miracle of condensation that featured a bathroom, a refrigerator and gas stove, and a closet stuffed with funky clothes along the lines of the outfit Miss Gorell was wearing when she died.
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From it he took a Nippona LL3R video camera'the subminiature model, which cost one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, weighed fourteen ounces, and was equipped with a folding twelve-inch parabolic antenna and transmitter.
A Maiden's Grave Deaver, Jeffery 1995
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It has the look of a subminiature communicator, but it might be anything: a camera, even an explosive.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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It has the - look of a subminiature communicator, but it might be anything: a camera, even an explosive.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968
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MINIATURE BUG This subminiature bug, is available in a VHF and UHF version.
Buechner Brustein, Robert 1963
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