— microscopically , adv.
/muy'kreuh skop"ik/ , adj.
1. so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Cf. macroscopic .
2. very small; tiny.
3. of, pertaining to, or involving a microscope: microscopic investigation.
4. very detailed; meticulous: a microscopic view of society.
5. suggestive of the precise use of the microscope; minute: microscopic exactness.
Also, microscopical .
[ 1670-80; MICROSCOPE + -IC ]