microworldn.

1923 Science 7 Dec. 455/2 The field of exploration in nature embraces now the micro-world of the subatomic as well as the vast depths of space.

1946 Science 12 July 21/2 It is hard to realize the great extent of the micro-world thus opened up [by the electron microscope].

1954 Rev. Econ. Stud. 22 156 Models used for theoretical and empirical studies of the working of economic life..operate..with ‘global’ quantities and relations. Most authors conceive of these..as being in some way derived from the underlying micro-world.

1955 O. Klein in W. Pauli Niels Bohr & Devel. Physics 117 Einstein..may have felt that on the side of the quantum physicists the importance of the general relativity claim in the search for the laws of the microworld was usually underestimated.

1967 New Scientist 18 May 383/2 The pavilion [at London Zoo] is an assemblage of micro-worlds in which the jumpers can jump, the climbers climb, the burrowers burrow and the nocturnal sleepers sleep.

1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon ii. 46 In the micro-world of an expedition the pettiest details, like an unwashed pan or an irritating mannerism, are blown up out of all proportion.

1980 S. Papert Mindstorms iv. 118 A turning point came when Deborah decided to restrict her Turtle commands, creating a microworld within the microworld of Turtle commands.

1990 J. Gribbin & M. Rees Cosmic Coincidences (1992) p. xiii Deep interconnections are becoming apparent between these two endeavours—the study of the cosmos and of the microworld.

1998 E. Davis TechGnosis (1999) x. 294 [He] has created digital microworlds capable of evolving an impressive array of creatures and parasites that compete for the ‘energy’ of CPU time.