small-scale experiment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsmall-scaleandexperiment
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small-scale
adjective
uk/ˈsmɔːl.skeɪl/us/ˈsmɑːl.skeɪl/
small, especially when compared to other things ...
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experiment
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪkˈsper.ə.mənt/
a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or ...
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(Definition ofsmall-scaleandexperimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The sample size required to detect changes would have been at least an order of magnitude larger than that used in thesmall-scaleexperiment.
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A newsmall-scaleexperimentwas therefore set up to estimate learners' ability to apply the strategy of imagery processing to figurative idioms independently.
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This is a verysmall-scaleexperiment, almost wholly useless for the conditions with which we have to deal at present.
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That was asmall-scaleexperimentin the liberalisation of international road haulage operations.
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I understand that onesmall-scaleexperimentis now being tried.
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It is a carefully controlledsmall-scaleexperiment, designed entirely to establish whether any particular scheme which looks good and workable on paper will work out in practice.
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He tried asmall-scaleexperimentin 1902, applying tags to fish, but the work was discontinued.
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The achievement of small-scale experiments on steady-state machines takes advantage of the temporally (and often spatially) flat plasma profiles.
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It believes—if it takes the decision, it will have decided—that it can do what needs to be done in small-scale experiments in laboratories.
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This is not a matter which can be dealt with solely in laboratories or by small-scale experiments.
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I hope that no large-scale remedy will be attempted, but that rather there will be small-scale experiments.
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