Frommicroscope +-ic.
microscopic (comparativemoremicroscopic,superlativemostmicroscopic)
- Of, or relating tomicroscopes ormicroscopy;microscopal
We supply allmicroscopic stains and other materials.
- Sosmall that it can only beseen with the aid of a microscope.
The water was full ofmicroscopic organisms.
- Verysmall;minute
Compared to the galaxy, we aremicroscopic in scale.
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, inTrains Illustrated, page593:By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of amicroscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
2014 September, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, inAmerican Journal of Physics, volume82, number 9, pages896–905:... the notion of themicroscopic was often used in the foundations of quantum theory right from the start, to indicate the realm in which quantum theory is required in order to explain phenomena when classical theory cannot do so; quantum theory was generally considered in those years to apply only to situations involving atoms and smaller“microscopic” entities...
- (figurative) Carried out with greatattention todetail.
The police carried out amicroscopic search of the crime scene.
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
so small that it can only be seen using a microscope
carried out with great attention to detail
microscopic (not comparable)
- microscopic
Borrowed fromFrenchmicroscopique. Equivalent tomicroscop +-ic.
microscopic m orn (feminine singularmicroscopică,masculine pluralmicroscopici,feminine/neuter pluralmicroscopice)
- microscopic
