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  • 1small number — index minority (outnumbered group), paucity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Small number — Within a set of positive numbers, a number is small if it is close to zero. A number is smaller if it is less than another number.Within a set of positive and negative numbers there is ambiguity, because being closer to zero does not correspond… …

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  • 3small number of — few, small amount of, small quantity of …

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  • 4Small business — Small businesses on Dalrymple Street in Greenock, Scotland A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned… …

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  • 5number — or [num′bər] n. [ME nombre < OE < L numerus: see NOMY] 1. a symbol or word, or a group of either of these, showing how many or which one in a series: 1, 2, 10, 101 (one, two, ten, one hundred and one) are called cardinal numbers; 1st, 2d,… …

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  • 6small business — n: an independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation and conforms to standards set by the Small Business Administration or by state law regarding number of employees and yearly income – called also small… …

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  • 7small-scale — adj involving only a small number of things or a small area ≠ ↑large scale ▪ a small scale study …

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  • 8small business — UK US noun [countable] [singular small business plural small businesses] business a business that has a small number of employees, usually less than 100 Thesaurus: general types of business or company …

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  • 9Small-world network — In mathematics and physics, a small world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but most nodes can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps. A small world network,… …

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  • 10Small world experiment — The six degrees of separation model The small world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was …

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