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microcosm | American Dictionary

microcosm
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈmɑɪ·krəˌkɑz·əm/
a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger:
[ C ]What’s happened to us is a microcosm of what’s happened to industry in America.

Examples of microcosm

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Lanes 6-12 show the profiles obtained from seven microcosms grown in this study.
He interpreted the incident as a microcosm of revolutionary longing thwarted by bourgeois society.
Poetic identity was the force of creation and progress in microcosm.
Vast industrial microcosms, and the centralization of production they enabled, became increasingly synonymous with successful commercial enterprise.
We compared resource availability, bromeliad growth and productivity, and animal diversity in bromeliad microcosms in three forest types along an elevational gradient.
Thus, protozoa may be key organisms in bromeliad microcosms when large amounts of organic matter are present.
At the level of the village or social microcosm, the village shrine was the source of social cohesion, seen in religious rather than political terms.
Because of this, we must, in my opinion, view the peer group not simply as a subsection of society but as a society in microcosm.
It is a microcosm of the loose federation (one dare not say community) that concerns itself with linguistic sound patterns.
Exploration of each individual's interior microcosm was at the same time an exploration of the macrocosm.
In effect, the site became a microcosm of the material world.
The cleaned sand was then autoclaved in a 4 cm pan for 30 min and used to fill the microcosm culture vessels after drying.
These interests could be extended and developed because the experimenters situated spirits in activefluidsand then located these fluids throughout the microcosm and the macrocosm.
The purpose of this study was used to investigate the developing metabolic diversity of microcosm dental plaques.
As such, they constitute a microcosm of the cultural and intellectual currents swirling about the court.
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