Macroscopic

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Macroscopic: Measurable and observable by the naked eye of a person with no visual disability.

For instance, a macroscopic view of a ball is just that: a ball. A microscopic view could reveal a thick round skin seemingly composed entirely of puckered cracks and fissures; or further down in scale, a collection of molecules in the rough shape of a sphere.

In physics, macroscopy is usually taken relative to what one is observing. If one looks at galaxy, a star is a macroscopic entity, even if it's many, many orders of magnitude larger than the afformentioned ball.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Macroscopic" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic, used under the GNU Free Documentation License