See Also: Microscopic(medicine)
microscopic(dictionary)
microscopic(dictionary)
microscopic haematuria(medicine)
microscopic section(medicine)
microscopic field(medicine)
Anatomy, microscopic(health)
Gallstones, microscopic(health)
microscopic anatomy(medicine)
microscopic sphincter(medicine)

newcomer (oh) and microscopic (iou)


newcomer (oh)



someone who has only recently arrived somewhere or only recently started a particular activity
-see also novice novice newcomer to
::I'm a relative newcomer to the retail business.
::a special award for the most promising newcomer
something that did not exist before
newcomer to
::The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.

microscopic (iou)



microscopic adjective. L17.
[from MICROSCOPE + -IC.]
Having the function or power of a microscope. L17.
Pope Why has not Man a microscopic eye?
So small as to be invisible or indeterminate without the use of a microscope; extremely small (lit. & fig.). M18.
Anthony Huxley Water and soil teem with microscopic plants. Daily Telegraph Although the Foreign Ministers sat for two hours and 20 minutes..progress was microscopic.
= MICROSCOPICAL 1. Now chiefly fig., regarded in terms of small units, concerned with minute detail (opp. macroscopic). L18.
D. Cecil The microscopic concentration of a scientist conducting an important experiment.