microscopic

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1 SMALLextremely small and therefore very difficult to see 极小的，微小的，小得难以看清的

a microscopic speck of dust

微小的尘粒

Inspectors discovered microscopic cracks in the hull of the submarine.

检测人员发现潜艇的船身有细微的裂缝。

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2 [only before noun]HBT using a microscope 用显微镜的

The cells were identified through microscopic analysis.

那些细胞通过显微镜分析被识别出来。

—microscopically /-kli/ adverbadv

The seeds are microscopically small.

这些种子极小。

Examples from the Corpus

microscopic• However, microscopic analysis of the soil in a pit can sometimes show what sort of food remains were originally buried.• As early as 1844, Alfred Donne published a compendium of drawings made from daguerreotypes of microscopic forms.• The skin is covered with microscopic hairs, invisible to the naked eye.• Many of these organisms are microscopic in size.• Even at the microscopic level of atoms... there is mostly space..• A primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars billions of years ago.• Interleukin-2 is normally present in minute quantities in the microscopic local environment of lymphocytes and acts only upon those few cells.• This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles.• The microscopic quantum world is imprecise; it is the domain of Heisenberg uncertainty.• Accordingly, the actual burning process on a microscopic scale must proceed through Several intermediate steps.• The whole process produces characteristic structural changes in the metal which can be detected by microscopic study of sections through the artefact.

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TOEFL BNC: 12134 COCA: 9581

microscopic adj.
⇨ small

TOEFL BNC: 12134 COCA: 9581

microscopic

Small in size: small, little, tiny...