large-scale

adj

Etymology

From large + scale.

  1. derived from *skalō
  2. derived from skala
  3. derived from escale
  4. inherited from scale
  5. formed as large-scale — “large + scale

Definitions

  1. Large in amount, scope or extent.

    • Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
    • The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.
    • The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible.
  2. Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at large-scale. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01large-scale02detail03profusion04cornucopia05horn06demon07neutral08war

A definitional loop anchored at large-scale. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at large-scale

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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