1856 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey (title) The micrographic dictionary; a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects.

1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 364 An amateur microscopist who..looks upon a mite simply as a ‘microscopic object’, to be classed in his micrographic Vade Mecum.

1895 Nature 15 Aug. 368/2 The applications of micrographic analysis.

1908 Analyst 33 289 The author has now introduced the micrographic method of examination by reflected light, as used for testing alloys, for the purpose of examining set cements.

1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 116 462 Micrographic observations which have shown that some at least of the more important pits remain open.

1944 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 161 598 The difference probably was related to the measurement of the images irrespective of orientation on the electron micrographic plates.

1968 Jrnl. Nuclear Materials 29 178 The Pu-Pr, Pu-Nd, and Pu-Sm binary systems have been investigated by thermal, micrographic, and X-ray diffraction methods.

1995 Jrnl. Biomech. 28 649 Video micrographic images of fully developed blood flow in a glass capillary of diameter 200 μm are recorded.

1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly June 205 Fig. 3 Macrographic and micrographic writing by the same epileptic.

1995 J. Drucker Alphabetic Labyrinth (1999) i. 20 This micrographic writing inscribed a text, generally a portion of scripture, which was thematically complementary to the central presentation.

1996 Jrnl. Neurol., Neurosurg. & Psychiatry 61 510 The patient's neuropsychological symptomatology consisted of..a perseverative, micrographic written reproduction of visually or verbally perceived language fragments.

1883 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 174 283 A rather similar rock from the same region, exhibits in part a distinct micrographic texture.

1895 A. Harker Petrol. Students ii. 30 In other cases the quartz and orthoclase shew an intricate interpenetration owing to their having crystallized simultaneously... This is the micrographic or micropegmatitic structure, reproducing on a small scale the peculiar arrangement of ‘graphic granite’.

1925 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 33 502 It occurs usually in very small grains..which commonly are associated with micrographic intergrowth to form a matrix for the other minerals.

1979 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 291 359 Micrographic texture is typical.

1990 Jrnl. Petrol. 31 1290 The rim of these plagioclase grains..is ragged and locally poikilitically encloses minute quartz grains, giving micrographic-like texture.

1961 Proc. National Microfilm Assoc. 167 It is particularly difficult to be expressive solely in generic terms without reference to commercial firms and their trade names because so many things are so new that no generic terms exist. Micrographic, for example, is used because, for this discussion, all systems referred to are graphic, at least at Input and certainly at Output, and in the Processing they are reduced to micro units.

1971 Libr. Resources & Techn. Services 15 492 (heading) Application of the Micrographic Catalog Retrieval System in the Iowa State University library.

1991 Governing Dec. 4/1 (advt.) Most companies that make document imaging equipment specialize in only one type of technology—either micrographic or electronic.