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microscopic

[ mahy-kruh-skop-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: Compare macroscopic.
microscopic organisms.
very small; tiny.
of, relating to, or involving a microscope:
microscopic investigation.
very detailed; meticulous:
a microscopic view of society.
suggestive of the precise use of the microscope; minute:
microscopic exactness.

microscopic

/ ˌmaɪkrəˈskɒpɪk /

not large enough to be seen with the naked eye but visible under a microscope Compare macroscopic
very small; minute
of, concerned with, or using a microscope
characterized by or done with great attention to detail

First recorded in 1670–80; microscope + -ic

Other methane is exhaled by microscopic organisms directly, as in the human gut.

After all, not every county medical examiner can spot CTE on microscopic slides.

Unlike influenza, it is incapable of traveling through tiny microscopic particles.

The occupied land is small, virtually microscopic in comparison to the St. Louis metropolitan area.

But there is another curiosity about the microscopic attention that is paid to civilian casualties.

They are easily seen with the one-sixth objective in the routine microscopic examination.

This effectually closes any microscopic blow-hole that may exist in the metal.

Even slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.

The clinical picture is hence more significant than the microscopic findings.

Microscopic examination reveals that there is a faint keel on the dorsal surface of the tip.

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