Microscopic vs Microworld - What's the difference?
microscopic | microworld |
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.
The world as it exists at a microscopic scale, subject to quantum effects etc.
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, passage=There are certainly many, new features to be learnt about the microworld and which quantum mechanics can inform about. }}
*2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum World , Allen Lane 2011, p. 8:
*:This randomness in the behaviour of the microworld came as a shock because, until this point, science was resolutely deterministic.
As an adjective microscopic
is microscopic.As a noun microworld is
the world as it exists at a microscopic scale, subject to quantum effects etc.microscopic
English
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.