adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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examination
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Whilst most bryozoa require microscopic examination , a few form colonies large and distinctive enough to be easily recognizable.
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The minute he got inside he was going up to his room to give it a microscopic examination .
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Mineralogical analysis and microscopic examination of soil structures is well advanced.
level
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On the microscopic level , this problem manifests itself in abstractionism.
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We are talking about really microscopic levels ....
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At a microscopic level , the range of factors and substances behaved to influence the interactions between neurones has been greatly widened.
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Even at the microscopic level of atoms... there is mostly space...
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars billions of years ago.
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Many of these organisms are microscopic in size.
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The skin is covered with microscopic hairs, invisible to the naked eye.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, the actual burning process on a microscopic scale must proceed through Several intermediate steps.
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As early as 1844, Alfred Donne published a compendium of drawings made from daguerreotypes of microscopic forms.
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Even at the microscopic level of atoms... there is mostly space...
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However, microscopic analysis of the soil in a pit can sometimes show what sort of food remains were originally buried.
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Interleukin-2 is normally present in minute quantities in the microscopic local environment of lymphocytes and acts only upon those few cells.
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The microscopic quantum world is imprecise; it is the domain of Heisenberg uncertainty.
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The whole process produces characteristic structural changes in the metal which can be detected by microscopic study of sections through the artefact.
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This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles.