Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Large enough to be perceived or examined by the unaided eye.
- adjective Relating to observations made by the unaided eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
megascopic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to
microscopic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Visible to theunassisted eye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye
- adjective large enough to be visible with the naked eye
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Examples
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SBY showed his capacities as a leader that oversee problems in macroscopic way, but he failed to show comprehension to solve the micro issues.
Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Disappointing Election Debate 2009
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Maxwell equations, which are now known as the macroscopic Maxwell equations (valid in the presence of continuous polarizable matter).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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By means of this concept he was able to write down modified [[Maxwell equations]], which are now known as the macroscopic Maxwell equations (valid in the presence of continuous polarizable matter).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Maxwell equations, which are now known as the macroscopic Maxwell equations (valid in the presence of continuous polarizable matter).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Maxwell equations, which are now known as the macroscopic Maxwell equations (valid in the presence of continuous polarizable matter).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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By means of this concept he was able to write down modified [[Maxwell equations]], which are now known as the macroscopic Maxwell equations (valid in the presence of continuous polarizable matter).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Even more generally, one could ask whether the results of decoherence could thus be used to explain the emergence of the entire classicality of the everyday world, i.e., to explain both kinematical features such as macroscopic localisation and dynamical features such as approximately Newtonian or Brownian trajectories, whenever they happen to be phenomenologically adequate descriptions.
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The associated de Broglie wavelength of a probing particle rather than the "macroscopic" wavelength defines the minimum object size that can be resolved.
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"This study shows that theory developed for the 'macroscopic' world applies equally to the microscopic one," said Sam Scheiner, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, which co-funds the EID program with NSF's
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Whenever you (approximately) say that the entropy is "macroscopic"
The Reference Frame 2010
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