Suurimis

Suurimis is an Estonian term associated with enlargement, growth, or expansion. In standard use, the noun most commonly employed for this idea is suurimine, which denotes the act, process, or result of making something larger, as well as general growth in various contexts. The concept also appears in phrases describing the growth of populations, devices, or materials, and in technical language where enlargement is a key operation.

Linguistically, suurimis is formed from the adjective suur- plus the nominalizing suffix -imine, yielding a word that can occur in inflected forms such as suurimise (genitive) and suurimist (partitive). In everyday language, however, the preferred forms are suurimine (for the process of enlargement) or, for the act of enlarging, suurendamine. The form suurimis mostly appears in compounded terms or as a genitive fragment within longer phrases, for example suurimise protsess (the process of enlargement).

Contexts and usage: in biology, suurimine can refer to growth or enlargement of cells or organisms; in engineering or materials science, it may describe the scaling or resizing of components; in economics or demography, related terms describe growth in size, capacity, or population. Because suurimis is not widely used as a standalone nominative, writers typically choose suurimine, suurendamine, or related terms to express the intended sense clearly.

See also: enlargement, growth, expansion, suurimine, suurendamine.