Definition of Micro

1. Adjective. Extremely small in scale or scope or capability.

Similar to: Little, Small

Definition of Micro

1. Adjective. Small, relatively small; (non-gloss definition used to contrast levels of the noun modified). ¹

2. Noun. (computing dated) (form of short form microcomputer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Micro

1. very small [adj] / microcomputer [n -S] - See also: microcomputer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Micro

micraners
micraster
micrasters
micrencephalia
micrencephalous
micrencephaly
micrergate
micrergates
micrified
micrifies
micrify
micrifying
micrite
micrites
micritic
micro (current term)
micro-
micro-Astrup method
micro-Kjeldahl method
micro-amp
micro-architecture
micro-architectures
micro-boredom
micro-breweries
micro-brewery
micro-chemical
micro-cook
micro-disc surgery
micro-diskette
micro-farad

Literary usage of Micro

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"Phagocytes are capable of ingesting living and virulent micro-organisms.—The digestion of micro-organisms in phagocytes is most often effected in a feebly ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(4) On the Formation of Struvite by micro-organisms. By H. ROBINSON, MA, Downing College. I wish to call the attention of the Society to the formation of ..."

3. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1908)
"A micro Spectroscope, Spectroscopic or Spectral Ocular, is a direct vision spectroscope in connection with a microscope ocular. The one devised by Abbe and ..."

4. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1907)
"The micro- organismic hypothesis seemed the more plausible of the two, ... Of the micro-organisms, the one which, by reason of our knowledge, ..."

5. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2003)
"Here, a technological comment was described from a very different aspect: micro BL [6]. micro BL could be very easily generated in laboratory as well as in ..."

6. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"top'ia; (micro, and otto**, 'a view.') Observation by the microscope; an important agency in the examination of the healthy and morbid tissue? ..."

7. The Essentials of chemical physiology for the use of students by William Dobinson Halliburton (1914)
"Within recent years, however, the ingenuity of many workers has been applied to the elaboration of microchemical and micro- ..."

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