macroscopic
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- adjective
- /ˌmækroʊˈskɒpɪk/
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macroscópico
- Fruiting bodies are macroscopic, hyphal structures upon or within which spores are produced.
- macroscopic system
- macroscopic scale
- macroscopic behavior
You expect things based on your experience with macroscopic objects.
- You expect things based on your experience with macroscopic objects.
- We experience macroscopic laws of physics, OK?
- But can those quantum effects somehow leave an imprint on the macroscopic world?
- Even shredding as thought experiment with the cat demonstrates that quantum effects for single particles can have macroscopic consequences, Schrodinger said.
- They're just kind of, they're basically macroscopic like particles.
- If you're building a model in which collapses induced by a macroscopic thing, why use a brain?
- Other than the singularity, big black holes have slightly different macroscopic properties like you.
Examples
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Exactly in the way we see them doing in our everyday macroscopic lives.
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The emergence of quantum effects on a macroscopic level.
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We experience macroscopic laws of physics, OK?
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Equilibrium is when the macroscopic properties of the system have stopped changing.
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Many conservation biologists are developing a macroscopic scientific view of nature.
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Each represents a macroscopic state of a system containing, for example, two fluids.
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It's a sort of course grained description of the macroscopic flow of fluids.
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There are no insects or other macroscopic stream consumers, which are common in most temperate streams.
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Because of fungi's unique biology, fungal ecology is a hybrid beast that straddles the macroscopic and microscopic worlds.
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The scientist studied the animals that were large enough to be seen with the naked eye, focusing on their macroscopic features.
Synonyms
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Large enough to be seen without a microscope
Big enough to be seen without a microscope
Large enough to be seen without a microscope
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Etymology
Macroscopic comes from Greek parts macro- meaning 'large' and -scopic meaning 'to see', as in microscope and telescope. So, something macroscopic is 'large' enough to be seen without a microscope.