noun

1.
a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
2.
a greatly reduced or abridged form or copy.
3.
a very small painting, especially a portrait, on ivory, vellum, or the like.
4.
the art of executing such a painting.
5.
an illumination in an illuminated manuscript or book.

adjective
6.
being, on, or represented on a small scale; reduced.

Idioms
7.
in miniature, in a reduced size; on a small scale:
The zoo exhibition offered a jungle in miniature.