Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as microcosmus, 1.

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  • noun A small or microscopic cosmos; a microcosm.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ cosmos

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Examples

  • The three interactions that govern the microcosmos are all much stronger than gravity and have been unified through the Standard Model.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public 2004

  • But on the side of mortality the conception of man is an integral part of the con - ception of nature as a whole, as a system within which things come to be and perish according to principles that are the same for the heavenly bodies, for the whole cosmos, and for the microcosmos which is man.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

  • “Indeed,” he continues, “the philosophers call the world generally by the Greek name of cosmos, which again they divide as it were into two kinds, one the macrocosmos, the other the microcosmos, meaning by the megacosmos

    MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • Just as Hockney chose a limited palette for Rake, so does this ensemble, which can make of five unaccompanied voices a microcosmos and a miracle.

    The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010

  • He increased the generation of theta rays and watched breathlessly as a twin star was formed there in the microcosmos that whirled on the screen.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2010

  • What if it was a free-ranging gas giant that didn't so much knock as suck the planet into its gravity well, and then the whole kaboodle became trapped by the sun, looking, externally, like just another Neptune with moons and rings, but being a microcosmos with atmosphere internally with a number of large bodies orbiting each other tightly, one of which would be the world I was talking about.

    mikandra: more weird stuff mikandra 2010

  • NASA Spirit Rover sẽ ở lại bị mắc kẹt trong cát , nơi mà nhiệm vụ của mình sẽ tái tập trung vào nghiên cứu microcosmos của sao Hỏa trong môi trường xung quanh của nó ngay lập tức.

    ideonexus.com »2010» tháng một 2010

  • What if it was a free-ranging gas giant that didn't so much knock as suck the planet into its gravity well, and then the whole kaboodle became trapped by the sun, looking, externally, like just another Neptune with moons and rings, but being a microcosmos with atmosphere internally with a number of large bodies orbiting each other tightly, one of which would be the world I was talking about.

    Oh w00t! mikandra 2010

  • We shall not only enter the hyperphysical plane, but shall project ourselves into the delectable world of the microcosmos and there emerge as entities adaptable to the greatly different existence.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

  • We have delved into the secrets of the microcosmos.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009

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