macroscopic

macroscopic

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ -scopic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. visible to the unassisted eye
2. (physics) Having an appreciable mass
   • 2014 September 1, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:

     ...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it...

Synonyms

• naked-eye

Antonyms

• microscopic

Related terms

• telescopic
• microscopic

Translations

visible to the unassisted eye

Czech: makroskopický Finnish: makroskooppinen (fi) French: macroscopique (fr) Irish: macrascópach Italian: macroscopico (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: makroskopisk Nynorsk: makroskopisk

Portuguese: macroscópico Romanian: macroscopic (ro) m or n Spanish: macroscópico

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Interlingua

Adjective

macroscopic (not comparable)

1. macroscopic, visible to the naked eye