Microscopic

//ˌmaɪ.kɹəˈskɑpɪk//

"Microscopic" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.

Bacteria are microscopic organisms.

This new state could in principle be any microscopic state.

Microplastics are microscopic particles of plastic debris that pollute the oceans.

Dan performed a microscopic examination of the hair.

Residing within the coral's tissues, the microscopic algae are well protected and make use of the coral's metabolic waste products for photosynthesis, the process by which plants make their own food.

Some seaweeds are microscopic, such as the phytoplankton that live suspended in the water column and provide the base for most marine food chains, and some are enormous, like the giant kelp that grow in abundant “forests” and tower like underwater redwoods from their roots at the bottom of the sea.

Microplastics are microscopic and smaller than plankton, a popular food choice of larger marine life.

Tung fashioned a hamburger bun with characteristic bumps and protrusions resembling those found on the microscopic virus itself.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin used microscopic analysis to confirm that the fossil is indeed an ancient egg.

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We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.

The water was full of microscopic organisms.

Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.

By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.

... the notion of the microscopic was often used in the foundations of quantum theory right from the start, to indicate the realm in which quantum theory is required in order to explain phenomena when classical theory cannot do so; quantum theory was generally considered in those years to apply only to situations involving atoms and smaller “microscopic” entities...

The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.

Why has not man a microscopic eye?

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