macroscopic
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Adjective
macroscopic (not comparable)
- 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.
- (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...
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visible to the unassisted eye
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Interlingua
Adjective
macroscopic (not comparable)
- macroscopic, visible to the naked eye
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French macroscopique.
Adjective
macroscopic m or n (feminine singular macroscopică, masculine plural macroscopici, feminine and neuter plural macroscopice)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||
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