MICROSCOPICALLY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Microscopically

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mˌaɪkrəskˈɑpɪkli/ Listen

Microscopically

adverb

By using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope. "The seeds were microscopically small"

As if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail.

See images of 'Microscopically'

Etymology of 'Microscopically'

Share |

"Microscopically" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind the possibility of diphtheria, and, unfortunately, it is at times impossible for the most acute physician to distinguish between these two diseases by the appearances of the throat alone. In order to do so it is necessary to rub off some of the discharge from the tonsils, and examine, microscopically, the kind of germs contained therein. The general points of difference are: in diphtheria the tonsils are usually completely covered with a gray membrane. In the early stage, or in mild cases of diphtheria, there may be only a spot ...

— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various

... his very raw staff, reported Jackson's little vanguard as being precisely ten times stronger than it was. He pushed out cautiously to right and left; and when he tried to engage again he found that Jackson had withdrawn. Falling Waters was microscopically small as a fight. But it served to raise Confederate morale and depress the ...

— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

Words linked to "Microscopically" : microscopical, microscopic