Meniscus vs Microscopic - What's the difference?
meniscus | microscopic |
A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.
*1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 19:
*:He opened wide both casements; they gave on a parking place four floors below; the thin meniscus overhead was too wan to illumine the roofs of the houses descending toward the invisible lake [...].
(optics) A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid.
(anatomy) Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.
Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
Very small; minute
Carried out with great attention to detail.
Able to see extremely minute objects.
As a noun meniscus
is a crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.As an adjective microscopic is
of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.meniscus
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(wikipedia meniscus)Noun
(en-noun)See also
*lunettemicroscopic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
- The water was full of microscopic organisms.
- Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
- The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
- Why has not man a microscopic eye? — Alexander Pope.
