microcosmic

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

mi=cro=cos=mic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective microcosmic has 1 sense

microcosmic(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the microcosmic world of business"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

microcosmic, a. [Cf. F. microcosmique.].

Of or pertaining to the microcosm. [1913 Webster]

Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.

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THESAURUS

microcosmic

atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable

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