ultramicroscopic

1. 1.

   too small to be seen without an ultramicroscope

Questions about ultramicroscopic

What does ultramicroscopic mean?

ultramicroscopic means "too small to be seen without an ultramicroscope".

How many syllables are in ultramicroscopic?

ultramicroscopic has 6 syllables and divides as ul-tra-mi-cro-sco-pic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ultramicroscopic a common word?

ultramicroscopic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.