The phrase "minuscule effect" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a very small or insignificant impact or result. Example: "Although the new policy was intended to have a major impact, it only had a minuscule effect on the company's overall profits."
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that over the first decade the bill will have a negative but minuscule effect on employment and average wages.
The conservative Heritage Foundation, for example, said in a report published last week that a tax holiday on foreign profits would "have a minuscule effect on domestic investment and thus have a minuscule effect on the U.S. economy and job creation".
Administration officials said on Monday that selling reserves would have a minuscule effect on gasoline prices and that the government stockpiles were intended to cope with true emergencies rather than simply high prices.
But Michael P. O'Looney, the department's chief spokesman, said the improprieties were an aberration and that the additional 203 felonies would have a minuscule effect on the overall 2002 Compstat numbers -- a total of 153,379 serious crimes reported citywide -- and on the F.B.I. uniform crime report numbers for 2002, reported this week.
Eliminating the reserved space would have only a minuscule effect on the parking options for nondisabled drivers.
Hamme says the team's preliminary analysis suggests that trying to stimulate plankton growth by adding iron to the water would have a minuscule effect on marine CO2 absorption.
The outcome indicated minuscule effects of capillary forces on reservoir pressure, oil saturation, and productivity.
The outcome indicated minuscule effects of capillary forces on reservoir pressure.
Moreover, leakages of individual studies can cumulate as in DNA pools, where aggregation of minuscule effects on SNP frequencies allows us to make strong conclusions.
Obviously, the real distribution of physical activity over the Dutch population is continuous, and even a single step per day more may have a (may it be minuscule) positive effect on health outcomes.
It will study the Yarkovsky effect, in which photons emitted from the sun-heated surface of a small, rotating asteroid generate a minuscule force that can alter its orbit.
