submicroscopic
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- adjective
- /ˌsʌbˌmaɪkrəˈskɒpɪk/
- Specialized
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submicroscópico
- The scientist discovered submicroscopic organisms that were invisible to the naked eye.
Examples
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The scientists at Nanoviricides have used these tools to produce precisely shaped submicroscopic polymer nanovesicles.
Blog text (20) -
Finally, it held within it a number of submicroscopic ovoid shapes, similar in form to various tiny fossils on Earth but much smaller than any of them.
Academic text (2003) -
A year ago this was probably submicroscopic in size.
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The other is quantum mechanics, which deals with the realm of submicroscopic particles and how they interact.
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The new feature, which opened April 8, provides twenty-five hands-on interactive exhibits aimed at helping us better understand that submicroscopic carrier of heredity: DNA.
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Nevertheless, space beckons, the mysteries of the human cell entice us, and the submicroscopic domain of elementary objects waits to be more deeply explored.
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But other early discoveries of splittings and structure in NMR lines showed the nucleus to be a sensitive probe of the submicroscopic atomic environments in which the nuclear moments are embedded.
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This company's technology platform is the marriage of submicroscopic polymer structures, or nanovesicles, with even smaller biological signaling molecules called ligands.
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New technologies allow researchers to manipulate submicroscopic materials with great precision.
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In the submicroscopic world, particles behave in ways that often defy classical physics.
Synonyms
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Tiny parts of cells or tissues that you can only see with a very strong microscope
So small that a normal light microscope cannot show it, only special microscopes can
Antonyms
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
submicroscopic = microscopic (transparent) = sub + microscopic
The prefix 'sub-' meaning 'below' or 'smaller than' is directly applied to 'microscopic', yielding 'smaller than microscopic' and is easily inferable by learners who know 'microscopic'.
Etymology
Submicroscopic breaks into sub- meaning 'under' and micro- meaning 'small', and the familiar word microscope shows the idea of 'looking at very small things'. So, submicroscopic means 'smaller than what a microscope can show', which is why it describes things you cannot see with the naked eye or an ordinary microscope.