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microscopic

[mahy-kruh-skop-ik] / ˌmaɪ krəˈskɒp ɪk /


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To accomplish this, the researchers turned to metamaterials, engineered materials that contain microscopic repeating structures designed to interact with energy in highly controlled ways.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Photonic chips manipulate light using microscopic structures called waveguides that are etched into a wafer.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

At the microscopic level, the bridge allows information to pass across what appears to us as an event horizon – a point of no return.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Rather, what we know is encoded in cells called neurons— microscopic electrochemical switching elements, typically a few hundredths of a millimeter across.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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