large-scale
adjEtymology
From large + scale.
Definitions
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.
Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.
The neighborhood
- antonymsmall-scale
Derived
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.
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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