large-scale
adjEtymology From large + scale.
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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.1961 February 23, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
- The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.1964 March 23, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145:
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- 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.2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN:
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Cartography, Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.
- Antonyms
- small-scale
- Derived terms
- ultra-large-scale, very-large-scale