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comparative more microscopic, superlative most microscopic
Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal examples
So small that it can only be seen using a microscope. examples
Very small; minute quotations examples
By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
... the notion of the microscopic was often used in the foundations of quantum theory right from the start, to indicate the realm in which quantum theory is required in order to explain phenomena when classical theory cannot do so; quantum theory was generally considered in those years to apply only to situations involving atoms and smaller “microscopic” entities...
2014 September, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, number 9, pages 896–905
(figurative) Carried out with great attention to detail. examples
Able to see extremely minute objects. quotations examples
Why has not man a microscopic eye?
1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […]