ti·ny

[tahy-nee]
adjective, ti·ni·er, ti·ni·est.
very small; minute; wee.

Origin:
1590–1600; late Middle English tine very small (< ?) + -y1

ti·ni·ly, adverb
ti·ni·ness, noun


little, diminutive, teeny.
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tiny (ˈtaɪnɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj , tinier, tiniest
very small; minute
 
[C16 tine, of uncertain origin]
 
'tinily
 
adv
 
'tininess
 
n

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Word Origin & History

tiny
c.1400, tyne "very small," perhaps from tine.
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Tiny definition


1. A language which provides concurrency through message-passing to named message queues.
2. A tool written by Michael Wolfe at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology for examining array data dependence algorithms and program transformations for scientific computations.
Extended Tiny was used to implement the Omega test. Michael Wolfe has also made extensions to his version of tiny.
(1994-12-12)

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Example sentences
Often the singer keeps time with a pair of tiny bells and a small clapper in
  his hand.
Flowers tiny, narrow, red bells in small clusters along branch tips.
It was a tiny cupboard of a room about six paces in length.
However, bird skeletons are so tiny and fragile that chemicals damage the
  bones, destroying the specimen's scientific value.
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