Meaning of MICROSCOPIC
| Pronunciation: | | `mIkru'skâpik
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- [adj] infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
- [adj] too small to be seen except under a microscope
- [adj] extremely precise with great attention to details; "examined it with microscopic care"
- [adj] of or relating to or used in microscopy; "microscopic analysis"; "microscopical examination"
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| | Synonyms: | | atomic, atomlike, infinitesimal, little, microscopical, microscopical, minute, precise, small, subatomic, subgross |
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| | Antonyms: | | large, macroscopic, macroscopical | | |
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| | Definition: | | Microscopic
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| | Definition: | | \Mi`cro*scop"ic\, Microscopical \Mi`cro*scop"ic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. microscopique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made
with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.
2. Able to see extremely minute objects.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? --Pope.
3. Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a
microscopic insect.
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| | Related Terms: | | 3-D, atomic, close, constant, corpuscular, delicate, direct, embryonic, evanescent, even, exact, express, faithful, fine, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, mathematical, microcosmic, micrometrically precise, molecular, nice, pinpoint, precise, refined, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scientifically exact, severe, square, stereoscopic, strict, subatomic, subtle, telescopic, tenuous, thin, three-dimensional, ultramicroscopic, undeviating, unerring, unseeable |
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