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macroscopic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌmæ.kɹəˈskɒ.pɪk/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Proto-Hellenic *makrós Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der. French macro-der. English macro- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképt͏̌omai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scope Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -scopic English macroscopic From macro- + -scopic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Visible to the unassisted eye.
   • The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify. 2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435:
2. (not-comparable) Having an appreciable mass.
   • ...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... 2014 September 14, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:

Antonyms

microscopic

Deriveds

cryomacroscopic · macroscopicity · semimacroscopic · macroscopically · submacroscopic

Relateds

microscopic · telescopic

Synonyms

naked-eye

Translations (20)

nb makroskopisk (visible to the unassisted eye) · hu makroszkopikus (visible to the unassisted eye) · de makroskopisch (visible to the unassisted eye) · pl makroskopowy (visible to the unassisted eye) · vi vĩ mô (visible to the unassisted eye) · pt macroscópico (visible to the unassisted eye) · nn makroskopisk (visible to the unassisted eye) · ga macrascópach (visible to the unassisted eye) · fr macroscopique (visible to the unassisted eye) · bg макроскопичен (visible to the unassisted eye) · cmn 宏觀 /宏观 (visible to the unassisted eye) · cs makroskopický (visible to the unassisted eye) · es macroscópico (visible to the unassisted eye) · fi makroskooppinen (visible to the unassisted eye) · ia macroscopic (visible to the unassisted eye) · it macroscopico (visible to the unassisted eye) · ro macroscopic (visible to the unassisted eye) · ru макроскопи́ческий (visible to the unassisted eye) · el μακροσκοπικός (visible to the unassisted eye) · et makroskoopiline (visible to the unassisted eye)