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US
/ˌmaɪkɹəˈskɑpɪk/
]
[ UK /mˌaɪkɹəskˈɒpɪk/ ]
[ UK /mˌaɪkɹəskˈɒpɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely precise with great attention to details
examined it with microscopic care - visible under a microscope; using a microscope
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so small as to be invisible without a microscope
differences were microscopic -
of or relating to or used in microscopy
microscopic analysis
microscopical examination
How To Use microscopic In A Sentence
- Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
- Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
- Genes are submicroscopic segments of DNA and cannot be detected by chromosome analysis.
- She'd be out on her ear before you could say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Times, Sunday Times
- Like a diner spearing a morsel of food with the tine of a fork, researchers have used the tip of a microscopic needle to lift a single atom from a surface and then replace it.
- A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants.
- Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores. MicrobiologyBytes
- Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs - cells. The Sun
- Microscopic examination of datolite nodules from a number of localities shows that native copper is probably the most common impurity.
- Are they big cardigans and jumpers or microscopic dresses? Times, Sunday Times
