macroscopic
adjEtymology From macro- + -scopic.
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Visible to the unassisted eye.
- The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Having an appreciable mass.
- ...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...2014 September 23, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:
- Synonyms
- naked-eye
- Antonyms
- microscopic
- Derived terms
- cryomacroscopic, macroscopically, macroscopicity, semimacroscopic, submacroscopic
- Related terms
- telescopic, microscopic