minuscule vs miniscule
Definitions
adjective
- of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
- extremely small
- lowercase
noun
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
- a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
Examples
Mrs Scott went across as a minuscule Great Lady - they should have seen Mrs Van L as she set off this morning!
The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins.
The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Definitions
adjective
- extremely small
Examples
I glanced quickly to the wall of the giant diagram of the male anatomy and I was reminded that the urethra is a miniscule tube through which I had always peed.
It's being asked because the figures are miniscule, going from two to four places of decimals.
The scene in Dances with Wolves where the Souix Indians come upon the herd of slaughtered buffalo and the white man had only used miniscule parts of the buffalo.
