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microscopic


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Definition of microscopic

adjective

  • 1so small as to be visible only with a microscope:microscopic algae
  • informal extremely small:a microscopic skirt
  • concerned with minute detail:such a vision is as microscopic as his is panoramic
  • 2relating to a microscope:microscopic soil analysis

Derivatives

microscopical

adjective

microscopically

adverb

microscopic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of microscopic in the US English dictionary
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