Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a microscopic manner or degree; by means of, or so as to require the use of, the microscope: as, to examine a plant microscopically; an object microscopically small.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
microscopic manner. - adverb To a
microscopic extent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail
- adverb by using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope
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Examples
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The circulation numbers for most of these publications remain microscopically low.
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Finally, he offered up a "clarion call" -- with ironic quotes or not -- for compromise, something that's been in microscopically short supply among Washington leaders on both sides of the aisle.
How to lead like Jon Stewart (and why you'd want to) Jena McGregor 2010
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Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so "microscopically" small that -- but let us not anticipate.
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so "microscopically" small that -- but let us not anticipate.
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Indeed, one feels microscopically small, and the thought that one may wrestle with this sea raises in one's imagination a thrill of apprehension, almost of fear.
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Bottom line, everything she does is microscopically examined, so my thought is by her endorsement, she is thinking that Hoffman will win with or without her endorsement.
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Watching the zombie-fied Vince try to sweet-talk a vapid caricature of a Vanity Fair reporter is only microscopically more interesting than watching Half-Turtle blossom into a restaurant entrepreneur.
Ask Matt: Rescue Me, Louie, Ted Danson on CSI, Community, and More! 2011
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It's the latest example of the campaigns microscopically examining each other's records and past statements in a game of political one-upmanship.
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It was as if he had slept for a time and just opened his eyes again, and yet the interval of unconsciousness was so microscopically short that there had been no time for him to fall.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac.
Chapter 2 2010
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