How to Use macroscopic in a Sentence

macroscopic

adjective
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  • At the macroscopic scale, how long an object takes to go from A to B is simply the distance divided by the object’s speed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • On a somewhat macroscopic scale, there is an expressed concern that the rise of AI Ethics is a shield or cover for something even grander.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The consequences of this crisis will, on a macroscopic scale, upend where and how humans can survive.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The geometry of the small dimensions determines the properties of strings and thus the macroscopic world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Two new papers published on Thursday in Science push the boundaries of the quantum effects physicists can achieve at a macroscopic scale.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 May 2021
  • And the final portion of the book, set in 2000, is structured around macroscopic foresight, as Chris glimpses the changing nature of crime in an increasingly globalized world.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • And some macroscopic signatures of the theory that might have been seen, such as cosmic strings and supersymmetry, have not shown up.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The solutions show how effective their new building block can be at modeling the behavior of matter from the micro to macroscopic scale.
    — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Several of the macroscopic pictures use lenticular printing to achieve a 3-D effect.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • To what extent the no-butterfly effect might apply in the macroscopic world of our lives is an open question, as is the degree to which the classical butterfly effect might apply in the quantum world.
    — Nikolai Sinitsyn, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • However, at the macroscopic level, the weird quantum effects are relatively weak and hard to perceive.
    — Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • To Bohr this would have seemed an invalid scenario — measurement, such as opening the box and looking at the cat, was for him always a macroscopic and therefore a classical process, so quantum rules would no longer apply.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2018
  • That's utterly different from the macroscopic arrow of time.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012
  • Our brains evolved according to selection pressures that involved only macroscopic objects like fruit, tigers and trees.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • Furthermore, collapse models say that a real macroscopic friend cannot be manipulated as a quantum system in the first place.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The answer lies essentially in the definition of a macroscopic object.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • Researchers have conducted macroscopic, microscopic and radiographic analyses of teeth to confirm that two of the teeth were indeed once used as beads or pendants.
    — Fox News, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The idea is that dark matter, rather than being composed of elementary particles, is actually made up of macroscopic clumps of matter.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • Quantum theory allows tiny things like atoms or photons to be in two places at once, but nobody has ever seen such behavior in a macroscopic material object.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Many of these questions concern mathematical structures that have a phase transition — a sudden macroscopic change, like ice melting to water.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In a new study published in the journal Optic Express, Chinese scientists created the first tractor beam strong enough to manipulate macroscopic objects.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
  • After approximately 1065 years, macroscopic objects will cease to exist in the universe.
    — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • At that size level, for instance, a microbot could work on minute objects using a probe tip like those used in atomic force microscopes and then travel macroscopic distances to carry out other chores such as washing or calibrating the tip.
    — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2011
  • In both disciplines, the properties of the material (yarn, metal) and its arrangement (stitches, alloys) affect the macroscopic behavior of the final product.
    — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Mabuchi is skeptical that any macroscopic life-size technology would ever behave in a way that’s quantum mechanical.
    — Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Thus, understanding the cell gives us further insight into the microscopic processes that drive macroscopic events.
    — Anna Powers, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • For some dietary diversity, other teams have their sights set on using larger, macroscopic organisms.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 12 June 2023
  • Rays of light travel in perfect straight lines for all practical purposes in large macroscopic objects, because their wavelengths are extremely small in comparison.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Widely known for his close-up images of human and animal eyes, Manvelyan brings a sense of a wonder to all of his photography projects—from macroscopic portraits to faraway galaxies glistening above historic ruins.
    — Melissa Wiley, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The standard answer is that this momentum is simply inherent to subatomic particles, and doesn’t correspond to any macroscopic notion of spinning.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022

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