Smaller. Smaller is the relative adjective (or sometimes adverb or noun) of small, indicating that referenced term it has more of the characteristic of smallness. I ordered the smaller of the two cup sizes offered. When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered.

2011年5月22日 · Joking aside, only less than and greater than are uniformly understood as < and > relation respectively; the other words (e.g. smaller, lower) are often used colloquially to mean less than, whose absolute values are less than, written smaller, etc however their usage are more ambiguous and so should be avoided when writing mathematics. EDIT:

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 the same question, where one answer states: "As a general rule, 'smaller' is used for size, whereas 'lesser' is used for quantity." In this particular ...

2020年6月25日 · The comparative is formed by adding "-er" to one syllable adjectives and by qualifying adjectives of two or more syllables with more or less: It is small - it is smaller; He is intelligent - he is more intelligent. ++ "Less and more smaller" is a tautology and thus wrong. ++ You are trying to be emphatic about the size and, as Weather Vane says ...

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 …

2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.

To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:

2020年12月4日 · The number of students this year is smaller than the number of students last year; I know that fewer is used for countables (e.g. "I have fewer children than my friend", or "I have fewer cars than a billionaire would have"), while less for uncountable (e.g. "I have less money than my friend"). Am I correct on this?

Interesting question. Here is my technical point of view. Remind yourself that length is a property, just as weight, temperature, price, size, volume, terminal resistance, magnetic permeability, etc.

2016年7月15日 · M-W: to make (something) seem smaller or less important. dictionary.com: to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.