LESSER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smaller in size or amount or value

Example:

the lesser anteater

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of less size or importance

Example:

the lesser of two evils

Classified under:

Adjectives

Antonym:

greater (greater in size or importance or degree)

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Context examples:

Henatinib, structurally similar to sunitinib, also inhibits, though to a lesser extent, mast/stem cell growth factor receptor (c-Kit) and, platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) alpha and beta.

(Henatinib Maleate, NCI Thesaurus)

Bees can even choose the value of zero, when trained to select the lesser of two quantities.

(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The great remembrance by which that time is marked in my mind, seems to have swallowed up all lesser recollections, and to exist alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This agent is metabolized by the cytochrome P450 isoenzyme CYP2C9, and, to a lesser extent, by CYP3A4.

(Nateglinide, NCI Thesaurus)

A portion of the peritoneal cavity formed by the greater and lesser omentum.

(Omental Bursa, NCI Thesaurus)

CD37 is a transmembrane glycoprotein expressed at high-levels on B cells and to a lesser extent on T cells and myeloid cells.

(Otlertuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Dyphilline exerts bronchodilator effects and to a lesser extent vasodilator and diuretic properties.

(Dyphylline, NCI Thesaurus)

My time is of value, and the same thing may be said, no doubt, in a lesser degree of your own.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The CD15 antigen, a carbohydrate adhesion molecule, is expressed on the surface of the majority of granulocytes, including neutrophils and eosinophils and, to a lesser extent, on monocytes.