: a very small scale

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For Hoel, emergent systems are ones whose macroscale behavior has some immunity to randomness or noise at the microscale. Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024 The team also found that, at the microscale, the paint strokes align with a different phenomenon known as Batchelor's scaling, named after Australian mathematician George Batchelor, who specialized in fluid dynamics. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1929, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of microscale was in 1929

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“Microscale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microscale. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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