macroscopic

English

Etymology

From macro- +‎ -scopic.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. Visible to the unassisted eye.
   • 2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435:

     The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.

2. (physics) Having an appreciable mass.
   • 2014 September, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:

     ...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...

Synonyms

• naked-eye

Antonyms

• microscopic

Derived terms

• cryomacroscopic
• macroscopically
• macroscopicity
• semimacroscopic
• submacroscopic

Related terms

• telescopic
• microscopic

Translations

visible to the unassisted eye

Bulgarian: макроскопичен (makroskopičen) Chinese: Mandarin: 宏觀 / 宏观 (zh) (hóngguān) Czech: makroskopický Estonian: makroskoopiline Finnish: makroskooppinen (fi) French: macroscopique (fr) German: makroskopisch (de) Greek: μακροσκοπικός (el) m (makroskopikós) Hungarian: makroszkopikus (hu) Interlingua: macroscopic Irish: macrascópach Italian: macroscopico (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: makroskopisk Nynorsk: makroskopisk Polish: makroskopowy (pl) Portuguese: macroscópico (pt) Romanian: macroscopic (ro) m or n Russian: макроскопи́ческий (ru) (makroskopíčeskij) Spanish: macroscópico Vietnamese: vĩ mô (vi)

Interlingua

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. macroscopic, visible to the naked eye

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French macroscopique.

Adjective

macroscopic m or n (feminine singular macroscopică, masculine plural macroscopici, feminine/neuter plural macroscopice)

1. macroscopic

Declension

Declension of macroscopic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	macroscopic		macroscopică		macroscopici	macroscopice
	definite	macroscopicul		macroscopica		macroscopicii	macroscopicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	macroscopic		macroscopice		macroscopici	macroscopice
	definite	macroscopicului		macroscopicei		macroscopicilor	macroscopicelor