Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Macroscopic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perceptible through unaided vision; visible without the use of a powerful magnifying instrument, or with only the assistance of a pocket-lens: used in contrast to microscopic, with reference to objects or investigations in regard to which the use of a microscope is not required: as, the megascopic constituents of a rock; the megascopic structure of the brain; a megascopic examination of an object. Also macroscopic, macroscopical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Of or pertaining to the megascope or the projection upon a screen of images of opaque objects.
- adjective Enlarged or magnified; -- said of images or of photographic pictures, etc.
- adjective (Geol.) Large enough to be seen; -- said of the larger structural features and components of rocks which do not require the use of the microscope to be perceived. Opposed to
microscopic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Visible to the
naked eye - adjective Of, or pertaining to, the
megascope
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
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Examples
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Often referred to as dubiofossils, in 1991 they were interpreted for the first time, as fossils of a megascopic organism.
Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 3 - Appekunny and Grinnell ReBecca Foster 2008
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Often referred to as dubiofossils, in 1991 they were interpreted for the first time, as fossils of a megascopic organism.
Archive 2008-08-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Based on satellite imagery and the digital elevation model, a number of lineaments (megascopic linear features in the landscape) were identified in Sagalassos 'ancient territory.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 4 2003
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