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Macroscopic
adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Visible to the unassisted eye. not-comparable
"The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify."
- 2 Having an appreciable mass. not-comparable
"...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it..."
Adjective
- 1 large enough to be visible with the naked eye wordnet
- 2 visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye wordnet
Etymology
From macro- + -scopic.
See also for "macroscopic"
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