Meanings
- not comparableVisible to the unassisted eye.
The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.
2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435 - not comparablenatural sciencesHaving an appreciable mass.
...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...
2014 September 28, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivevisible to the naked eye; using the naked eye
adjectivelarge enough to be visible with the naked eye
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₂ḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*mh₂ḱrós
- Proto-Hellenic*makrós
- Ancient Greekμᾰκρός (măkrós)
- Frenchmacro-
- Englishmacro-
- Proto-Indo-European*speḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*spéḱyeti
- Proto-Hellenic*sképt͏̌omai
- Ancient Greekσκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
- Ancient Greekσκοπός (skopós)
- Ancient Greekσκοπέω (skopéō)
- Englishmacroscopic
Translations
Bulgarian макроскопичен
- макроскопичен (makroskopičen)visible to the unassisted eye
Chinese Mandarin 宏觀 /宏观
- 宏觀 /宏观 (hóngguān)visible to the unassisted eye
Czech makroskopický
- makroskopickývisible to the unassisted eye
Estonian makroskoopiline
- makroskoopilinevisible to the unassisted eye
Finnish makroskooppinen
- makroskooppinenvisible to the unassisted eye
French macroscopique
- macroscopiquevisible to the unassisted eye
German makroskopisch
- makroskopischvisible to the unassisted eye
Greek μακροσκοπικός
- μακροσκοπικός (makroskopikós)visible to the unassisted eye
Hungarian makroszkopikus
- makroszkopikusvisible to the unassisted eye
Irish macrascópach
- macrascópachvisible to the unassisted eye
Italian macroscopico
- macroscopicovisible to the unassisted eye
Norwegian Bokmål makroskopisk
- makroskopiskvisible to the unassisted eye
Polish makroskopowy
- makroskopowyvisible to the unassisted eye
Portuguese macroscópico
- macroscópicovisible to the unassisted eye
Romanian macroscopic
- macroscopicvisible to the unassisted eye
Russian макроскопи́ческий
- макроскопи́ческий (makroskopíčeskij)visible to the unassisted eye
Spanish macroscópico
- macroscópicovisible to the unassisted eye
Vietnamese vĩ mô
- vĩ môvisible to the unassisted eye
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with macroscopic
Cite this entry
macroscopic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/macroscopic
“macroscopic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/macroscopic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “macroscopic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/macroscopic.
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