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  • noun A relatively large scale

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Examples

  • Funny how friction 'dissipates' entropy from macroscale to microscale, always.

    New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today 2010

  • In truly chaotic systems, like those showing fluid turbulence, the small effects can magnify as time progresses, and produce major, macroscale phenomena.

    Archive 2008-05-01 James Killus 2008

  • In truly chaotic systems, like those showing fluid turbulence, the small effects can magnify as time progresses, and produce major, macroscale phenomena.

    Chaos James Killus 2008

  • In this study, high-resolution paleo-climatic data have been used to explore at a macroscale the effects of climate change on the outbreak of war and population decline in the preindustrial era.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.

    Why people don't like Wikipedia (and blogs) 2005

  • In Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking Glass" same title as the May 23rd finale the characters are literally playing the roles of walking chess pieces on a macroscale countryside chess board.

    LOSTCasts 53: Catch-22 2007

  • A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Agency and structure are a loop, in his view; we can only understand why things happen in human societies by combining an attention to the microscale of individual practice and action and the macroscale of social structure across broad expanses of time and space.

    May 2007 2007

  • And a little slop at the microscale is the price of such efficiency at the macroscale.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • And a little slop at the microscale is the price of such efficiency at the macroscale.

    Why people don't like Wikipedia (and blogs) 2005

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