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micrographic

micrographic

1 7.7
Pictures made with a microscope to show very small details
  • adjective
  • /ˌmaɪkrəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : micrográfico
  • While president of the New England Chapter in 1981-82, I met with Lou Bianchi at the school, and we laid the foundation for a new micrographic training program for deaf and multiple-handicapped children that enabled them to learn our technology and go on to higher education or into local companies, at prevailing wages, to become self-sufficient and establish themselves as some of the best workers our industry has ever known.
  • micrographic surgery
  • Mohs micrographic

Examples

  • The Library of Congress and Kodak were very busy with micrographic information retrieval.

    Blog text (28)

  • Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) decreases the recurrence rate but can be expensive, delay definitive reconstruction, and is limited in its availability.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The documents were preserved using micrographic techniques to save space in the archives.

  • She used micrographic imaging to analyze the details of the tiny organisms.

  • Many libraries employ micrographic methods to digitize old manuscripts for future generations.

Synonyms

microscopic
vsmicrographic
  • Specialized
6 5.3

Relating to the use of a microscope

is about images made by high magnification photography or imaging
microscopical
vsmicrographic
  • Specialized
7.9

Using a microscope to study very small things

is focused on images created by high magnification imaging rather than the study

How Microscopic

electron microscopic
  • Specialized
6.5
micrographic
  • Specialized
1 7.7
photographic
54 4.1

Surface Forms

micrographic positive

Morphology

micrographic = graphic (semi-transparent) = micro + graphic

The structure is clear as micro- plus graphic, but the technical sense of microscopic photography or imaging is specialized rather than fully predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Micrographic comes from micro 'small' and graphic 'picture' or 'writing', so it means a 'small picture'. That's why micrographic is used for images made with microscopes or by microscopic photography.