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Microscopically

adverb

By using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope. "The seeds were microscopically small"

As if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail.

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"Microscopically" Quotes from Famous Books

... improves the understanding, and disposes the mind to discern faults with an unhappy penetration. I would not have you shut your eyes to the errors or follies, or thoughtlessnesses of your friends, but only not to magnify them or view them microscopically. Regard them in others as you would have them regard the same things in you, in ...

— Friends and Neighbors - or Two Ways of Living in the World • Anonymous

... have heretofore considered this swarming to be a mating of the two sexes. This is not the case, however, in many instances. On numerous occasions, and at different seasons of the year, I have captured dozens of these insects in my net and have examined them microscopically. I found them all to be unimpregnated females; I have never yet discovered a male among them. In some of the Diptera the males emerge from the pupa state after the females; I therefore believe that the females await the presence of the males, and, while waiting, pass ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

Words linked to "Microscopically" : microscopical, microscopic