Positive Focal Length Image - Real, Diminished, Inverted and Smaller?

[Air]

This is a simple wording confusion. On one question that I did, the property for a positive focal length image was Real, Diminished and Inverted. On another question of the same type, the property for a positive focal length image was Real, Inverted and Smaller.

So, my confusion is the Diminished and Smaller property. Are they both the same thing?

 

[Hootenanny]

So, my confusion is the Diminished and Smaller property. Are they both the same thing?

Yes.

 

[Air]

Which one is more suitable in physics terms? Should I write Smaller or Diminished?

 

[Hootenanny]

Which one is more suitable in physics terms? Should I write Smaller or Diminished?

It doesn't matter, they are both equivalent.