Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Too small to be resolved by an optical microscope.
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- adjective Smaller than
microscopic ; too small to be seen even with amicroscope .
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Examples
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Against violent and cunning opposition, the three of them unearth a scheme to capture the submicroscopic black hole that caused the Tunguska Event and use its awesome power to transform the world -- or end it altogether.
January 2009 2009
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Kaku and Greene go on to explain that at one point in the history of our reality these 10 dimensions collapsed into our present four dimensional universe and a six dimensional one which folded into "an infinite array of submicroscopic knots, within and behind it."
Rabbi Adam Jacobs: A Kabbalistic View Of Evolution Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011
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The emergent principles of thermodynamics, which were introduced to describe macroscopic systems such as steam engines and refrigerators, were eventually derived from the submicroscopic atomic theory of matter.
Victor Stenger: The Hubris of Holism Victor Stenger 2011
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Jack Adler thinks he's fingered the culprit: a submicroscopic black hole, smaller than an atom, heavier than a mountain, older than the stars.
January 2009 2009
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The emergent principles of thermodynamics, which were introduced to describe macroscopic systems such as steam engines and refrigerators, were eventually derived from the submicroscopic atomic theory of matter.
Victor Stenger: The Hubris of Holism Victor Stenger 2011
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Jack Adler thinks he's fingered the culprit: a submicroscopic black hole, smaller than an atom, heavier than a mountain, older than the stars.
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The key to the Feynman Drive is a submicroscopic sample of the hypothetical element Feynmanium, named after my real-life mentor and co-author from my Caltech days.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly selfaware, the submicroscopic moments.
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Against violent and cunning opposition, the three of them unearth a scheme to capture the submicroscopic black hole that caused the Tunguska Event and use its awesome power to transform the world -- or end it altogether.
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The emergent principles of thermodynamics, which were introduced to describe macroscopic systems such as steam engines and refrigerators, were eventually derived from the submicroscopic atomic theory of matter.
Victor Stenger: The Hubris of Holism Victor Stenger 2011
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