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Microscopical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or used in microscopy.  Synonym: microscopic.  "Microscopical examination"
2.
Visible under a microscope; using a microscope.  Synonym: microscopic.
3.
So small as to be invisible without a microscope.  Synonym: microscopic.






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"Microscopical" Quotes from Famous Books



... during his spare hours while surveying, and learned the common branches unaided while tending store. Mrs. Somerville learned botany and astronomy and wrote books while her neighbors were gossiping and idling. At eighty she published "Molecular and Microscopical Science." ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... vii., p. 507.).—I beg to inform your correspondents R. I. F. and J., that in Number 3. of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (Highley, Fleet Street) they will find three papers containing more or less information on the subject of their Query; and a plate, exhibiting two positive photographs from collodion negatives, in the same number, will give a good idea of what they may ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various

... said austerely. "I made a microscopical examination of the water in your new spring, which rises, I venture to remind you, through soil which ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell

... all astronomical Telescopes, reflecting or refracting, a real image of an object is submitted to microscopical examination. ...
— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor



Words linked to "Microscopical" :   little, small, microscope, visible, seeable, microscopy



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