microscopical
adjEtymology From microscope + -ical. Compare microscopic.
1
Pertaining to the microscope; achieved by means of a microscope.
2
Archaic Only visible by means of a microscope; very small, microscopic.
- I have observed in green Wood all those long Microscopical pores which appear in Charcoal perfectly empty of any thing but Air.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XVIII:
- Derived terms
- copromicroscopical, nonmicroscopical, submicroscopical, ultramicroscopical