wide-scale
English
Adjective
wide-scale
- Alternative form of widescale.
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 251-252:
- The railway's civil engineers and architects have embarked on a wide-scale scheme for minor station improvements—quite apart, of course, from continued development of major schemes.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 1261299044, PC, scene: Remnant: Creators Codex entry:
- The Jardaan are a mysterious species or faction responsible for building the bots and technology known as the Remnant. According to recordings and findings from Khi Tasira, they were interested in not only wide-scale terraforming but the creation of sentient life. One of their successful creations, the angara, were seeded on multiple worlds in the Heleus Cluster.
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Further reading
- “wide-scale”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.