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Macroscopic

Macroscopic \Mac`ro*scop"ic\, Macroscopical \Mac`ro*scop"ic*al\, a. [Macro- + Gr. ? to view.] Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic. -- Mac`ro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
macroscopic

1872, from macro- + ending from microscopic. Related: Macroscopical; macroscopically.

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macroscopic

a. visible to the unassisted eye.

WordNet
macroscopic

adj. large enough to be visible to the naked eye [syn: macroscopical, large] [ant: microscopic]

Usage examples of "macroscopic".

Today we understand superconductivity to be an intrusion of quantum mechanics into our everyday, macroscopic world.

The asymmetrical unfurling of the four physical forces calls into play step by step new structural levels, from the macroscopic side as well as from the microscopic.

And, of course, Giorgio immediately recognized the macroscopic ramifications.

Macroscopic structures become the environment for microscopic structures and influence their evolution in decisive ways, or make it possible at all.

Vice versa, the evolution of microscopic structures becomes a decisive factor in the formation and evolution of macroscopic structures.

All researchers believed that this phenomenon showed the Anfract to possess macroscopic quantum states, of unprecedented size.

The girl took one down and wrapped it about him in a series of convolutions surely as intricate as any of the folds of macroscopic space and pinned it into place.

The essential difference from ordinary matter is that the individual quark wave functions are delocalized, spread through a macroscopic volume.

The essential difference from ordinary matter is that the individual quark wave functions are delocalized, spread through a macroscopic volume .

Macroscopic chemical identifiers labeled the entrees, which were in stasis ovens.

These were the mesoscopic samples, large enough to experience the macroscopic qualities of temperature, small enough to lie within the microscopic realm of quantum forces.

In fact, although the size of a typical string is the Planck length, if we pumped enough energy into a string—an amount of energy beyond our wildest imaginings but one that would likely have been attained by the big bang—we could cause it to grow to a macroscopic size, a clumsy probe of the microcosmos indeed!

The “islands” of matter tweeplets left behind from the cooling photon fluid remained dominated internally by the strong force while gravitation became the dominant influence In the macroscopic realm created outside, and in many ways they continued to behave as microcosms of the domain from which they had originated.

Humans might be gone, life support might be dead—algal ponds crashed, macroscopic plants killed, even the cockroaches fried by the kiloGray radiation pulse—but the multimegaton wheel continued to spin endlessly in the frigid void, waiting for an uncertain return.

I perform a brief preliminary examination, studying both the macroscopic and microscopic effects, creating an active first-approximation stress-point map, producing a similar map of molecular energy levels within both the ceramic and the induced crystallization planes, calculating energy-transfer profiles between each of the ultrasound frequencies and the crystallization planes, and extrapolating possible new resonance frequencies based on this analysis.