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单词 microscopic
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Definition of microscopic in English:

microscopic

adjective mʌɪkrəˈskɒpɪkˌmaɪkrəˈskɑpɪk
  • 1So small as to be visible only with a microscope.

    microscopic algae
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of these fossils are microscopic bacteria and algae.
    • Diarrhoea was defined as watery when the patient passed at least three loose stools per day without visible blood or microscopic red blood and polymorphonuclear cells in the specimen.
    • Sure, any time we crush bacterial cells for research, it's a sacrifice of a tiny microscopic life.
    • They feed on microscopic blue green algae plants that only thrive in saline waters.
    • To their scientists, the visible snow is only a small part of all the settling material that is mostly microscopic and not visible to the naked eye.
    • The doctors then suck out a little bit of the contents of the donor egg - the cytoplasm - using a microscopic needle manipulated by tiny robotic arms.
    • The presence of microscopic algae in the circulatory system and internal organs can help to locate where the victim died, as they vary from place to place.
    • Coccoliths are the extremely small calcareous parts of microscopic marine algae.
    • To begin with, when at a length of only 7 mm, young chub feed primarily on microscopic algae and diatoms.
    • This microscopic, single-celled green algae contains more chlorophyll than any known plant - nearly four times the amount found in spirulina.
    • Stumpf said that bloom intensified when it moved south of Sanibel Island, possibly with a bloom of a diatom, a type of microscopic algae, called Rhizosolenia.
    • The only life found in the lake are some microscopic algae that live between certain layers of water within variable depths of the lake.
    • Sea ice provides a habitat for microscopic marine algae which are released in the summer when the ice melts and are fed upon by krill.
    • It is believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with nothing to feed on.
    • Copepods feed on microscopic algae and in turn serve as food for millions of other invertebrates and fish.
    • The nutrients trigger blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton.
    • Snow algae are colorful, microscopic organisms that thrive in the chilly, acidic, sun-blasted, and nutrient-poor confines of melting snow.
    • Within spongy layers of sea ice, microscopic algae bloom in profusion as sunlight floods in from above.
    • They feed on many types microscopic algae that grow on calcareous material, such as coral skeletons.
    • Though the giant forms receive more notice, there are also many microscopic brown algae.
    Synonyms
    tiny, very small, minute, infinitesimal, minuscule, nanoscopic, nanosized, invisible to the naked eye
    1. 1.1informal Extremely small.
      a microscopic skirt
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
      • Raban remained silent as the two bickered, glaring at the back of the half-elf, willing him to blow into tiny, microscopic pieces.
      • His dream was big whereas my dream by comparison is tiny, almost microscopic.
      • Ashley turned to see a striking blonde girl wearing a microscopic skirt step towards her.
      • A microscopic splinter in a finger can be extremely painful, while a cut on your leg may not hurt as much!
      • It's an epic, but at the heart of it is an extremely detailed and microscopic view of human nature.
      • One of my concerns, echoing those of Duster, is the manner in which external traits previously linked to race might now become microscopic objects of distrust and abnormalcy.
      • But the plight of Cameron - whose guilt must have been magnified by the island's microscopic smallness and the glare of the lighthouse lamp - was peculiarly unaffecting.
      • Indeed, large stones of the day were not polished, making it quite impossible for microscopic letters to be inscribed on them in any visible way.
      • Is she flipping through a magazine and raving about a microscopic skirt?
      • Rip him apart into teeny tiny microscopic pieces.
      • Seriously, it's an extremely small, microscopic number, and he probably won't notice.
      • Remind me why paying $25.00 for two endive leaves and a microscopic piece of seared tuna on a tiny plate would make sense on any planet in the universe?
      Synonyms
      tiny, very small, minute, infinitesimal, minuscule, nanoscopic, nanosized, invisible to the naked eye
    2. 1.2 Concerned with minute detail.
      such a vision is as microscopic as his is panoramic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • None the less, neither darkness nor joy eclipse her humour, most evident in the fantasy of microscopic details in her drawings, scratched into layer upon layer of textured colour.
      • Near these points, the behaviour of the system is universal and does not depend on the microscopic details.
      • And so, let me take this time to list a few of the many microscopic details that make ordinary day to day living worth it all for me.
      • His intimate Portrait of a Man (London, NG) is detailed with microscopic precision and the sitter is, unusually, placed by an open window overlooking a landscape.
      • It's often said that television is an impressionistic medium, good at putting across feelings, not details - of giving an overview, not a microscopic survey.
      • Specific, often microscopic detail is discussed but supports the parallel narratives.
      • Independent of the microscopic details, such problems can be described at long times by a random walker moving along a tilted potential or, equivalently, a biased random walker.
      • Their music glows with the aural equivalent of sunlight reflecting on a thin pool of ice and pulses with microscopic detail, all the while possessing a sharp absurdist sense of humor.
      • A number of microscopic details will be neglected.
      • From now on every shuttle launch will be tracked and examined in microscopic detail, and this should set a precedent for all future manned space launches.
      • But all this detracts from the microscopic detail of a play in which even the sweat stains on the hips of a miner's trousers acquires dramatic relevance.
      • Specific, sometimes microscopic, detail is used here, too, in a kind of a cinematic structure cutting back and forth between the two narratives.
      • With their entire season on the line, Munster would have planned their day in microscopic detail, yet all of their best intentions looked like turning to dust as early as the first 10 minutes.
      • For half an hour he talked in microscopic detail about how the car is built.
      • Here, they prosper in splendid microscopic detail.
      • What exact history is realized in a universe does, of course, depend on microscopic details.
  • 2Relating to a microscope.

    microscopic soil analysis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To demonstrate that the improved growth observed in plate mating assays was due to suppression of the cell fusion defect, we performed microscopic analyses of mating cells.
    • Furthermore, the intellectual processes of pathologists during microscopic analysis sessions can differ from one another noticeably.
    • Microscopic scoring was performed on coded slides and, to minimize variability, the same expert performed all the microscopic analyses.
    • In many cases of heel pain located about 3cm above the heel bone, there is no inflammation present when the tendon is scanned or viewed by microscopic analysis.
    • Red cells and hemoglobin may be accompanied by seeing red cells in a microscopic examination, by a positive chemical analysis for blood or by both.
    • It is likely that a larger percentage of these blades were utilized, but without microscopic wear analysis, that percentage could not be determined.
    • And there is hope that because each of the three countries used slightly different techniques, microscopic and chemical analysis might show up where the chemical was from.
    • No bacteria were visible upon microscopic examination after growing the purified fungal isolates in liquid or on solid YPD medium without the antibiotics.
    • Fluorescent markers that are easily visible by microscopic or spectroscopic detection systems play a critical role in biology.
    • Upon microscopic examination, the lens capsular epithelium was swollen, and there was a ring of densely packed cells surrounding the exposed region.
    • Earlier studies on colchicine using conventional microscopic analysis yielded inconclusive results in rat peripheral blood, although clearly positive effects were obtained in the mouse.
    • Membrane tethers usually have diameters of the order of tens of nanometers, so they were barely visible under normal microscopic conditions.
    • One person determined spermatozoal motility using light microscopy for five microscopic fields for each collection.
    • For microscopic analysis of induced cell death and fungal development, Trypan Blue staining was performed on individual leaves.
    • The methods for crystallization and electron microscopic analysis have been described previously.
    • By chemical analysis and microscopic examination we found that the spheres and end fittings were made from a sophisticated Titanium alloy.
    • All slides were coded for microscopic analysis at 1250x magnification.
    • As the facility executive stepped back from the individual reports, he realized that microscopic analysis didn't tell the whole story.
    • Morphological changes were evaluated by phase-contrast microscopic analysis.
    • At present, diagnosis of tissue disorders is mainly based on the microscopic analysis of biopsy samples by standard histochemical procedures.

Derivatives

  • microscopical

  • adjective ˌmʌɪkrəˈskɒpɪk(ə)lˌmaɪkrəˈskɑpək(ə)l
    • Relating to a microscope or its use.

      the cells were smeared on microscopical slides
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The microscopical parameters that were derived indicated that fundamental properties such as fluidity and water penetration barrier were affected, pointing to how the peptide might exert its antimicrobial activity.
      • Light and fluorescent microscopical observation of pollen development in vitro under optimal conditions showed the disappearance of the vacuole, as in vivo.
      • Most microscopical techniques capable of imaging isolated supramolecular assemblies require adsorption of the assembly on substrates such as mica or carbon films.
  • microscopically

  • adverb mʌɪkrəˈskɒpɪk(ə)liˌmaɪkrəˈskɑpək(ə)li
    • Stars in the public eye are microscopically picked apart.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With tapes you spent less time looking at the cover, less time reading microscopically small lyrics and more time listening to it on the go, in cars, trains or buses.
      • The research group plans to use the kind of technology used to etch circuits on microchips to create microscopically thin channels on tiny hexagonal glass plates which would be lined with liver cells.
      • It's the sort of story which a humanitarian journalist would cover, instead of, say, microscopically analysing one remark by a candidate's wife.
      • But that was 10 years ago, when those figures weren't microscopically small.

Rhymes

ectopic, gyroscopic, heliotropic, horoscopic, isotopic, isotropic, kaleidoscopic, macroscopic, misanthropic, myopic, philanthropic, phototropic, telescopic, topic, tropic
 
 

Definition of microscopic in US English:

microscopic

adjectiveˌmīkrəˈskäpikˌmaɪkrəˈskɑpɪk
  • 1So small as to be visible only with a microscope.

    microscopic algae
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The only life found in the lake are some microscopic algae that live between certain layers of water within variable depths of the lake.
    • The doctors then suck out a little bit of the contents of the donor egg - the cytoplasm - using a microscopic needle manipulated by tiny robotic arms.
    • Most of these fossils are microscopic bacteria and algae.
    • Copepods feed on microscopic algae and in turn serve as food for millions of other invertebrates and fish.
    • Snow algae are colorful, microscopic organisms that thrive in the chilly, acidic, sun-blasted, and nutrient-poor confines of melting snow.
    • Within spongy layers of sea ice, microscopic algae bloom in profusion as sunlight floods in from above.
    • To their scientists, the visible snow is only a small part of all the settling material that is mostly microscopic and not visible to the naked eye.
    • The presence of microscopic algae in the circulatory system and internal organs can help to locate where the victim died, as they vary from place to place.
    • They feed on microscopic blue green algae plants that only thrive in saline waters.
    • It is believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with nothing to feed on.
    • The nutrients trigger blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton.
    • Sea ice provides a habitat for microscopic marine algae which are released in the summer when the ice melts and are fed upon by krill.
    • Stumpf said that bloom intensified when it moved south of Sanibel Island, possibly with a bloom of a diatom, a type of microscopic algae, called Rhizosolenia.
    • Though the giant forms receive more notice, there are also many microscopic brown algae.
    • They feed on many types microscopic algae that grow on calcareous material, such as coral skeletons.
    • Coccoliths are the extremely small calcareous parts of microscopic marine algae.
    • Sure, any time we crush bacterial cells for research, it's a sacrifice of a tiny microscopic life.
    • To begin with, when at a length of only 7 mm, young chub feed primarily on microscopic algae and diatoms.
    • Diarrhoea was defined as watery when the patient passed at least three loose stools per day without visible blood or microscopic red blood and polymorphonuclear cells in the specimen.
    • This microscopic, single-celled green algae contains more chlorophyll than any known plant - nearly four times the amount found in spirulina.
    Synonyms
    tiny, very small, minute, infinitesimal, minuscule, nanoscopic, nanosized, invisible to the naked eye
    1. 1.1informal Extremely small.
      a microscopic skirt
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the plight of Cameron - whose guilt must have been magnified by the island's microscopic smallness and the glare of the lighthouse lamp - was peculiarly unaffecting.
      • A microscopic splinter in a finger can be extremely painful, while a cut on your leg may not hurt as much!
      • You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
      • Indeed, large stones of the day were not polished, making it quite impossible for microscopic letters to be inscribed on them in any visible way.
      • It's an epic, but at the heart of it is an extremely detailed and microscopic view of human nature.
      • His dream was big whereas my dream by comparison is tiny, almost microscopic.
      • Seriously, it's an extremely small, microscopic number, and he probably won't notice.
      • Raban remained silent as the two bickered, glaring at the back of the half-elf, willing him to blow into tiny, microscopic pieces.
      • Ashley turned to see a striking blonde girl wearing a microscopic skirt step towards her.
      • One of my concerns, echoing those of Duster, is the manner in which external traits previously linked to race might now become microscopic objects of distrust and abnormalcy.
      • Rip him apart into teeny tiny microscopic pieces.
      • Is she flipping through a magazine and raving about a microscopic skirt?
      • Remind me why paying $25.00 for two endive leaves and a microscopic piece of seared tuna on a tiny plate would make sense on any planet in the universe?
      Synonyms
      tiny, very small, minute, infinitesimal, minuscule, nanoscopic, nanosized, invisible to the naked eye
    2. 1.2 Concerned with minute detail.
      such a vision is as microscopic as his is panoramic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Specific, sometimes microscopic, detail is used here, too, in a kind of a cinematic structure cutting back and forth between the two narratives.
      • For half an hour he talked in microscopic detail about how the car is built.
      • Their music glows with the aural equivalent of sunlight reflecting on a thin pool of ice and pulses with microscopic detail, all the while possessing a sharp absurdist sense of humor.
      • What exact history is realized in a universe does, of course, depend on microscopic details.
      • From now on every shuttle launch will be tracked and examined in microscopic detail, and this should set a precedent for all future manned space launches.
      • Independent of the microscopic details, such problems can be described at long times by a random walker moving along a tilted potential or, equivalently, a biased random walker.
      • And so, let me take this time to list a few of the many microscopic details that make ordinary day to day living worth it all for me.
      • It's often said that television is an impressionistic medium, good at putting across feelings, not details - of giving an overview, not a microscopic survey.
      • With their entire season on the line, Munster would have planned their day in microscopic detail, yet all of their best intentions looked like turning to dust as early as the first 10 minutes.
      • None the less, neither darkness nor joy eclipse her humour, most evident in the fantasy of microscopic details in her drawings, scratched into layer upon layer of textured colour.
      • His intimate Portrait of a Man (London, NG) is detailed with microscopic precision and the sitter is, unusually, placed by an open window overlooking a landscape.
      • Near these points, the behaviour of the system is universal and does not depend on the microscopic details.
      • But all this detracts from the microscopic detail of a play in which even the sweat stains on the hips of a miner's trousers acquires dramatic relevance.
      • Here, they prosper in splendid microscopic detail.
      • Specific, often microscopic detail is discussed but supports the parallel narratives.
      • A number of microscopic details will be neglected.
  • 2Relating to a microscope.

    microscopic analysis of the soil
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For microscopic analysis of induced cell death and fungal development, Trypan Blue staining was performed on individual leaves.
    • Microscopic scoring was performed on coded slides and, to minimize variability, the same expert performed all the microscopic analyses.
    • By chemical analysis and microscopic examination we found that the spheres and end fittings were made from a sophisticated Titanium alloy.
    • As the facility executive stepped back from the individual reports, he realized that microscopic analysis didn't tell the whole story.
    • All slides were coded for microscopic analysis at 1250x magnification.
    • Fluorescent markers that are easily visible by microscopic or spectroscopic detection systems play a critical role in biology.
    • And there is hope that because each of the three countries used slightly different techniques, microscopic and chemical analysis might show up where the chemical was from.
    • The methods for crystallization and electron microscopic analysis have been described previously.
    • Furthermore, the intellectual processes of pathologists during microscopic analysis sessions can differ from one another noticeably.
    • Morphological changes were evaluated by phase-contrast microscopic analysis.
    • It is likely that a larger percentage of these blades were utilized, but without microscopic wear analysis, that percentage could not be determined.
    • Red cells and hemoglobin may be accompanied by seeing red cells in a microscopic examination, by a positive chemical analysis for blood or by both.
    • Upon microscopic examination, the lens capsular epithelium was swollen, and there was a ring of densely packed cells surrounding the exposed region.
    • One person determined spermatozoal motility using light microscopy for five microscopic fields for each collection.
    • No bacteria were visible upon microscopic examination after growing the purified fungal isolates in liquid or on solid YPD medium without the antibiotics.
    • In many cases of heel pain located about 3cm above the heel bone, there is no inflammation present when the tendon is scanned or viewed by microscopic analysis.
    • At present, diagnosis of tissue disorders is mainly based on the microscopic analysis of biopsy samples by standard histochemical procedures.
    • Earlier studies on colchicine using conventional microscopic analysis yielded inconclusive results in rat peripheral blood, although clearly positive effects were obtained in the mouse.
    • Membrane tethers usually have diameters of the order of tens of nanometers, so they were barely visible under normal microscopic conditions.
    • To demonstrate that the improved growth observed in plate mating assays was due to suppression of the cell fusion defect, we performed microscopic analyses of mating cells.
 
 
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