Synonyms:
microscopic, microscopical
Meaning: of or relating to or used in microscopy; "microscopic analysis"; "microscopical examination"
Usage examples
"An idea of the conditions inside a loaded tube can best be had by microscopic examination.
The earth itself would be driven away if, instead of consisting of a solid globe of immense aggregate mass, it were a cloud of microscopic particles.
In this way animal life developed, and drawn by the greenery and fertile soil, man appeared. And that's how these islands were formed, the immense achievement of microscopic animals.
The tips of my fingers touched what felt like round balls, but, not satisfied, I pulled down the bough and found one round ball and one mite of a gray back with microscopic yellow hairs on each side of the spine.
The steepness increased, but these stone steps allowed us to rise with facility, and even with such rapidity that, having rested for a moment while my companions continued their ascent, I perceived them already reduced by distance to microscopic dimensions.
So many unknown quantities: its mass, its distance, its excentricity, the obliquity of its orbit, its position at any time--nothing known, in fact, about the planet except the microscopic disturbance it caused in Uranus, some thousand million miles away from it.
The tiny microscopic animals that secrete this polypary live by the billions in the depths of their cells. Their limestone deposits build up into rocks, reefs, islets, islands. In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Enceladus, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Seawater, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fermi paradox, License CC BY-SA 4.0