macroscopic

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ -scopic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. Visible to the unassisted eye.
   • 2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435:

     The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.

2. (physics) Having an appreciable mass.
   • 2014 September, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:

     ...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it...

Synonyms

• naked-eye

Antonyms

• microscopic

Related terms

• telescopic
• microscopic

Translations

visible to the unassisted eye

• Czech: makroskopický
• Finnish: makroskooppinen (fi)
• French: macroscopique (fr)
• German: makroskopisch (de)
• Irish: macrascópach
• Italian: macroscopico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: makroskopisk

  Nynorsk: makroskopisk

• Polish: makroskopowy (pl)
• Portuguese: macroscópico (pt)
• Romanian: macroscopic (ro) m or n
• Spanish: macroscópico

Interlingua

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. macroscopic, visible to the naked eye

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French macroscopique.

Adjective

macroscopic m or n (feminine singular macroscopică, masculine plural macroscopici, feminine and neuter plural macroscopice)

1. macroscopic

Declension

Declension of macroscopic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	macroscopic		macroscopică	macroscopici	macroscopice
	definite	macroscopicul		macroscopica	macroscopicii	macroscopicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	macroscopic		macroscopice	macroscopici	macroscopice
	definite	macroscopicului		macroscopicei	macroscopicilor	macroscopicelor