micrology

n. 显微学, 拘于细节 [医] 显微科学

词形变化

micrologies 复数 micrologies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The study of trivialities and minutiae, or focusing on the small details rather than the whole picture.

    不可数
  2. 2.

    That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.

    不可数

词源

Sense 1 is borrowed directly from Ancient Greek μικρολογία (mikrología, “pettiness, stinginess, triviality”), with the suffix reinterpreted as -logy. Sense 2 is micro- + -logy, effectively the same etymological components.

来源:wiktionary