large-scale

See also: largescale and large scale

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English large
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English large-scale

    From large + scale.

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    large-scale (comparative larger-scale, superlative largest-scale)

    1. Large in amount, scope or extent.
      • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
        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.
      • 1964 March, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145:
        The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.
      • 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN‎[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 30 March 2025:
        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.
    2. (cartography, computer graphics) Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.

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