Macroscopic

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 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. 1
    large enough to be visible with the naked eye wordnet
  2. 2
    visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye wordnet

Etymology

From macro- + -scopic.

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