macroscopic

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-rós

Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós

Proto-Hellenic *makrós

Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.

French macro-der.

English macro-

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.

English -scope

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English -scopic

English macroscopic

From macro- + -scopic.

Pronunciation

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• 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

Derived terms

• cryomacroscopic
• macroscopically
• macroscopicity
• semimacroscopic
• submacroscopic

Related terms

• telescopic
• microscopic

Translations

visible to the unassisted eye

• Bulgarian: макроскопичен (makroskopičen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宏觀 / 宏观 (zh) (hóngguān)

• Czech: makroskopický
• Estonian: makroskoopiline
• Finnish: makroskooppinen (fi)
• French: macroscopique (fr)
• German: makroskopisch (de)
• Greek: μακροσκοπικός (el) m (makroskopikós)
• Hungarian: makroszkopikus (hu)
• Interlingua: macroscopic
• Irish: macrascópach
• Italian: macroscopico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: makroskopisk

  Nynorsk: makroskopisk

• Polish: makroskopowy (pl)
• Portuguese: macroscópico (pt)
• Romanian: macroscopic (ro) m or n
• Russian: макроскопи́ческий (ru) (makroskopíčeskij)
• Spanish: macroscópico
• Vietnamese: vĩ mô (vi)

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/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