Definition of "miniaturize" [miniaturize]

• To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I had posted on my blog about this guy earlier this month, and began to think about how to take the immense library of oblique imagery we were capturing from planes and 'miniaturize' them in this way."
• "Of course, this software is not going to duplicate what an expensive lens can do, but I found it fun to manipulate some photos from my archives and 'miniaturize' parts of the photos."
• "People who have them say there is just one problem - small they may be but breeders forgot to "miniaturize" their appetite as well, so most of the time they are insatiably hungry and have been known to raid fridges, cupboards and larders in their unrelenting quest for food."