0 a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger:
1 a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger:
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.
