macroscale
- adjective
- /ˈmækroʊskeɪl/
- Specialized
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macroscópico
- In economics, macroscale analysis looks at the overall performance of national economies, rather than individual firms.
Examples
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Nine years later, it was revealed that approximately 70 percent of the terrain identified in the previous report as requiring macroscale forestry was still rapidly deteriorating pastureland (MOOD 1987).
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For composite beams reinforced with macroscale polypropylene and microscale polyvinyl alcohol fibers, the initial impact force reduces by 30% relative to the control beam.
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Once again, engineers working on a macroscale design would never be concerned about these slow growth rates.
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Fig. 18: Scheme for the parallel implementation of a macroscale domain decomposition method; see PDF for image.
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Surface temperatures traditionally have the single purpose of assisting weather forecasters in making mesoscale and macroscale forecasts.
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Nanoscience and nanotechnology are on the verge of tremendous advances in modeling and design that originate in macroscale engineering, chemistry, and computer science.
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For composite beams singly reinforced with macroscale polypropylene fibers, the impact energy is primarily dissipated by the deformation without significantly damaging the contact surface.
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The modeling and design infrastructure that has developed around macroscale engineering, including computer-aided design-based mechanical and electrical engineering, provides a solid foundation of protocols and design interfaces that are now being extended to software for molecular modeling and design," the roadmap states.
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Engineers often focus on macroscale structures when designing bridges and large buildings.
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The study of macroscale climates helps scientists understand weather patterns over large regions.
Synonyms
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3.8
Very large and affecting many people or places
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5.6
You can see without a microscope
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6.1
Large in scale and about the overall system
Relating to the large overall structure of a system like a country or city
Big enough to be seen without a microscope
Large enough to be seen without a microscope
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Macroscale comes from two parts: macro-, an old Greek part meaning 'large', and scale, meaning 'size' or 'level'. So the adjective macroscale describes things that are on a large level and are easy to see or measure.