Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
relating to or characteristic of a microcosm;
- Example: "the microcosmic world of business"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Microcosmic \Mi`cro*cos"mic\, Microcosmical \Mi`cro*cos"mic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. microcosmique.]
Of or pertaining to the microcosm.
[1913 Webster]
Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance
obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and
ammonium phosphate, and also called
hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux,
and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe
reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally
obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called
sal microcosmicum.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
microcosmic
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the
microcosmic world of business"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "microcosmic":
atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular,
impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable,
indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microscopic,
molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable