See Also: synecdochical(dictionary)

microscopic (iou) and synecdochical (iou)


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.

synecdochical (iou)



synecdochical adjective. L16.
[from SYNECDOCHE + -ICAL.]
Grammar & Rhetoric. Involving or constituting synecdoche. L16.
Anthropology. Involving synecdochism. rare. L19.
synecdochic adjective = SYNECDOCHICAL L18.
synecdochically adverb in a synecdochical manner, by synecdoche E17.