microscopic
adjective
mi·cro·scop·ic
ˌmī-krə-ˈskä-pik 
variants
or less commonly microscopical
1
: resembling a microscope especially in perception
2
a
: invisible or indistinguishable without the use of a microscope
b
: very small or fine or precise
3
: of, relating to, or conducted with the microscope or microscopy
Examples of microscopic in a Sentence
At this point, the embryo is a microscopic clump of only 100 cells.
There is a microscopic crack in the diamond.
He has a microscopic attention span.
He recorded every aspect of his trip in microscopic detail.
a microscopic study of plant tissues
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To emphasize the fact that the Tigers could not have been the darlings of baseball last September without contributions grand and microscopic, from late March in Chicago all the way to the Division Series in Detroit.
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Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 22 May 2025
While space stations are relatively clean environments and are bombarded by higher doses of radiation than the surface of Earth, astronauts coming to and from space stations carry trillions of microscopic organisms with them.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 21 May 2025
To emphasize the fact that the Tigers could not have been the darlings of baseball last September without contributions grand and microscopic, from late March in Chicago all the way to the Division Series in Detroit.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Chemical and microscopic analyses of the tubes revealed traces of nicotine and vilca bean, a hallucinogen related to the drug DMT.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for microscopic
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“Microscopic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microscopic. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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microscopic
adjective
mi·cro·scop·ic
ˌmī-krə-ˈskäp-ik
variants
also microscopical
1
: of, relating to, or conducted with the microscope or microscopy
a microscopic examination
2
: resembling a microscope : able to see very tiny objects
some insects have microscopic vision
3
: able to be seen only through a microscope : very small
a microscopic plant
Medical Definition
microscopic
adjective
mi·cro·scop·ic
ˌmī-krə-ˈskäp-ik
variants
or microscopical
1
: of, relating to, or conducted with the microscope or microscopy
2
: so small or fine as to be invisible or indistinguishable without the use of a microscope compare macroscopic, submicroscopic, ultramicroscopic sense 1
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