Microscopic
[maɪkrə'skɒpɪk] or [,maɪkrə'skɑpɪk]
Definition
(adj.) so small as to be invisible without a microscope; 'differences were microscopic' .
(adj.) extremely precise with great attention to details; 'examined it with microscopic care' .
(adj.) visible under a microscope; using a microscope .
(adj.) of or relating to or used in microscopy; 'microscopic analysis'; 'microscopical examination' .
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Microscopical
Inputed by Betty
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. [Applied to the eye.] Able to see minute objects.
Typed by Justine
Examples
- He was able to tell the English brewers the defects in their output by a microscopic examination of their yeast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There are also the skeletons of the microscopic creatures called Radiolaria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The camera alike records the secrets of the starry heavens and the bacteria of the microscopic world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In England, for example, the Microscopic Company paid $7500 down and agreed to a royalty, while arrangements were effected also in France, Russia, and other countries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Without these microscopic beings life would become impossible, because death would be incomplete. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And I will throw in Robert Brown's new thing--'Microscopic Observations on the Pollen of Plants'--if you don't happen to have it already. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His daily life was of a curious microscopic sort, his whole world being limited to a circuit of a few feet from his person. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typed by Justine