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microminiature
[mahy-kroh-min-ee-uh-cher, -choor, -min-uh-]
adjective
built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of microminiature1
Example Sentences
A screaming African ant audible to the human ear; microminiature sculptures, no bigger than the head of a pin, carved by an expatriate Egyptian musician; instructions on how to X-ray a rainforest bat — perplexing displays at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, described as of “uncertain and unexplained” meaning, aren’t the only works of art to be seen.
I joined aviation and entered a new field that had just opened up called microminiature electronics.
It all adds up to a kind of microminiature Feydeau farce set in Atlantic City.
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