Smaller in amount, value, or importance, especially in a comparison between two things: chose the lesser evil. Of a smaller size than other, similar forms: the lesser anteater.

I am wondering about the correct use of lesser/smaller in the following phrase: This library has a smaller/lesser number of books than the National Library. I did find another thread on nearly th...

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a city is "an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village"; a town is "a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city"; and a village is "a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town".

2011年5月22日 · Is −9 a smaller number than −8? And is −9 a lower number than −8? What is the difference between lower and smaller here?

2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely …

2016年8月22日 · Which of these (a minuscule speckle and a tiny speckle) would be smaller than the other? I am aware that most of the time, such subtle differences are not probed in depth by the reader.

2020年12月4日 · You can say that a number is either less than or smaller than another number, although looking at Ngrams, people usually say less than. So both (3) and (4) should be acceptable answers, but maybe (3) is best.

2014年8月23日 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

2014年4月15日 · I'm afraid smaller doesn't cut it, because there's no obvious way to indicate whether you mean smaller than medium or smaller than small. In which context I would just note that the "subtitle font size" selection control in VLC media player uses smaller and larger for the two extremes (beyond small and large).

2023年1月6日 · In the usage notes for "granular" on Wiktionary, it points out that depending on context "more granular" could mean "bigger grains", i.e. coarser, or "smaller gra...