macroscopic
pronunciation
How to pronounce macroscopic in British English:
UK [ˌmækrə'skɒpɪk]
How to pronounce macroscopic in American English:
US [ˌmækrə'skɒpɪk]
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- Adjective:
- large enough to be visible to the naked eye
Word Origin
- macroscopic (adj.)
- 1872, from macro- + ending from microscopic. Related: Macroscopical; macroscopically.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Our result derives from this concept of macroscopic observables being a kind of average .
- 2. So either closed timelike curves cannot exist , or big , macroscopic things cannot travel on truly closed paths through space-time-unless everything we think we know about entropy and the arrow of time is wrong .
- 3. Keeping track of all that information is not feasible in practice , but we can average the microscopic behaviour to derive a macroscopic description .
- 4. Analysing the statistics , we find that local realism emerges for macroscopic correlations without us needing to invoke any other mechanism .
- 5. One thing we have neglected to say so far is that einstein 's theory , which describes the macroscopic world so admirably well , doesn 't work for the microscopic world .