[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closerexamination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors,The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film[1],Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.,→ISBN, page173:
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson'sexaminations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
(education) A formaltest involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered tohigh school andcollege students coveringcourse material studied in asemester.
