Microscopic
/ˌmaɪkrəˈskɑːpɪk/adjective
Extremely small and only seen with microscope.
Doctors examine a microscopic piece of tissue under a microscope.
Often appears as...
- microscopic sample
- microscopic level
adjective
Very detailed.
She took a microscopic look at the business contract before signing it.
Often appears as...
- microscopic examination
- microscopic study
adjective
Extremely small and only seen with microscope.
Doctors examine a microscopic piece of tissue under a microscope.
Often appears as...
- microscopic sample
- microscopic level
adjective
Very detailed.
She took a microscopic look at the business contract before signing it.
Often appears as...
- microscopic examination
- microscopic study
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
Use 'microscopic' in subjects like biology or materials science where actual microscopes are used.
The students were fascinated by the microscopic organisms in pond water.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Visible
'Microscopic' suggests something is too small to see without special equipment.
A microscope reveals the microscopic details on a butterfly's wing.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
People might use 'microscopic' to hyperbolically describe very small things in everyday life.
He squinted his eyes to read the microscopic print on the contract.
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infinitumminusculeminutemolecularperceptiblesmalltiny
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Filming the Kung Fu...
when a manta is first born it really is microscopic it can stand on your finger on the end of your finger it's that small and so you really don't give a bit much chance of survival and it's born into a big world you know the jungle is full of danger and even very leaf it walks on is it's you know a huge stage on which its life is playing
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Making sense of string...
and intertwine in a very interesting shape, interesting structure. And the idea is that if this is what the extra dimensions look like, then the microscopic landscape of our universe all around us would look like this on the tiniest of scales. When you swing your hand, you'd be moving around these extra dimensions over and over again,
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Questions No One Knows...
interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So, just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic.
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Let your eyes do the...
attracted amazing partners and gave me access to some of the world's most advanced imaging technologies enabling me to capture extraordinary microscopic landscapes an extreme slow-motion you may be wondering what this is but I'd
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The wacky history of...
And all cells come from preexisting cells. To be honest, this all sounds incredibly boring until you dig a little deeper into how the world of microscopic organisms, and this theory came to be.
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Nature's First Line of...
but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam the letters stand for shell accessory material and it's a microscopic protective layer that all eggs have
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Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
clouds of microscopic plants phytoplankton minuscule green worlds a teaspoon of ocean contains thousands of eggs and larvae like seeds waiting for
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See How Cracked Skin...
thanks to millions of microscopic cracks in their skin. How do elephants get their cracks? And why does it help them beat the heat?
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Why do animals have such...
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth.
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Boogie at an Animal...
Microscopic plankton flourish and an explosion of life begins.
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Filming the Kung Fu...
when a manta is first born it really is microscopic it can stand on your finger on the end of your finger it's that small and so you really don't give a bit much chance of survival and it's born into a big world you know the jungle is full of danger and even very leaf it walks on is it's you know a huge stage on which its life is playing
Video examples
Making sense of string...
and intertwine in a very interesting shape, interesting structure. And the idea is that if this is what the extra dimensions look like, then the microscopic landscape of our universe all around us would look like this on the tiniest of scales. When you swing your hand, you'd be moving around these extra dimensions over and over again,
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So, just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic.
Video examples
Let your eyes do the...
attracted amazing partners and gave me access to some of the world's most advanced imaging technologies enabling me to capture extraordinary microscopic landscapes an extreme slow-motion you may be wondering what this is but I'd
Video examples
The wacky history of...
And all cells come from preexisting cells. To be honest, this all sounds incredibly boring until you dig a little deeper into how the world of microscopic organisms, and this theory came to be.
Video examples
Nature's First Line of...
but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam the letters stand for shell accessory material and it's a microscopic protective layer that all eggs have
Video examples
Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
clouds of microscopic plants phytoplankton minuscule green worlds a teaspoon of ocean contains thousands of eggs and larvae like seeds waiting for
Video examples
See How Cracked Skin...
thanks to millions of microscopic cracks in their skin. How do elephants get their cracks? And why does it help them beat the heat?
Video examples
Why do animals have such...
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth.
Video examples
Boogie at an Animal...
Microscopic plankton flourish and an explosion of life begins.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Faith Salie
American Journalist
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
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Mackenzie Davis
Canadian Actress
I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
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Kurt Vonnegut
American Writer
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
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Aaron D. O'Connell
American Physicist
The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
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Amos Oz
Israeli Writer
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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Liam Neeson
Irish Actor
I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
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Arthur Baer
American Journalist
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
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Willard Wigan
English Sculptor
The microscopic world became my obsession.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.
Quote examples
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
Quote examples
Faith Salie
American Journalist
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
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Mackenzie Davis
Canadian Actress
I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
Quote examples
Kurt Vonnegut
American Writer
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Quote examples
Aaron D. O'Connell
American Physicist
The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
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Amos Oz
Israeli Writer
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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Liam Neeson
Irish Actor
I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
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Arthur Baer
American Journalist
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
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Willard Wigan
English Sculptor
The microscopic world became my obsession.
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