Miniature vs Microscopic - What's the difference?
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Miniature is a related term of microscopic. As adjectives the difference between miniature and microscopic is that miniature is smaller than normal while microscopic is microscopic. As a noun miniature is greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale. As a verb miniature is to make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
miniature Noun
( en noun)
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantlepiece.
A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
(gaming) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
A particular feature or trait.
- (Massinger)
Derived terms
* miniaturist
Adjective
( en adjective)
Smaller than normal.
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, volume=189, issue=13, page=39, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Miniature brains grown in lab
, passage=Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.}}
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Derived terms
* miniature poodle
* miniaturism
Verb
(miniatur)
To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
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microscopic English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
- We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
- The water was full of microscopic organisms.
Very small; minute
- Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
Carried out with great attention to detail.
- The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Why has not man a microscopic eye? — Alexander Pope.
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* macroscopic
Related terms
* microscope
* macroscopic
* telescopic
See also
* naked-eye
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