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LARGE-SCALE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusually large in scope
Example:
a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed
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big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Constructed or drawn to a big scale
Example:
large-scale maps
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples:
This is in contrast to the more immediate response seen in the Amazon, such as large-scale tree mortality, brought about by more episodic drought events.
(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)
Cassini's observations have shown a large-scale reversal of this system, beginning immediately after the equinox in 2009.
(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)
Large-scale copy number polymorphisms are common and widely distributed in the human genome.
(Copy Number Polymorphism, NCI Thesaurus)
Sudden large-scale changes in plant populations, such as the tree die-offs observed worldwide in recent decades, could affect the rate at which climate changes.
(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)
Animals that evolved in environments subject to large-scale habitat-altering events such as fires and storms are better equipped to handle forest fragmentation caused by human development than species in low-disturbance environments.
(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)
Researchers have developed artificial ‘chameleon skin’ that changes colour when exposed to light and could be used in applications such as active camouflage and large-scale dynamic displays.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
The excavation process spanned several years, and included researchers suspended by ropes and large-scale mechanical excavators to recover one of the more complete specimens from this part of the sauropod dinosaur family tree.
(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
The astronomers found turbulent, low-density gas much further from the star than predicted, and concluded that the movement could not result from convection, that is, from large-scale movement of matter which transfers energy from the core to the outer atmosphere of many stars.
(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)
The rise and application of ‘big data’ in healthcare, assessing and analysing detailed, large-scale datasets makes it increasingly feasible to make predictions about health and disease outcomes and enable stratified approaches to prevention and clinical management.
(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)
These reactions may have occurred on the early-formed planetesimals which were accreted to Earth or possibly during the giant impact which formed the Moon and which is believed to have caused large-scale melting of our planet.
(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
