microstructuraladj.

1893 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 3) 596 Macro-structural metamorphism, having the external structure (morphology) changed, as where an amorphous condition becomes schistose; micro-structural, having the internal structure (histology) wholly changed, with or without a macro-structural alteration.

1937 O. B. Darbishire tr. A. von Buzágh Colloid Syst. iv. 45 With increasing crystal size the microstructural composition asymptotically approaches the stoichiometric composition.

1966 C. R. Tottle Sci. Engin. Materials x. 224 Steels are susceptible to microstructural changes at the temperatures required for stress relief, and for this reason relief is often avoided.

1990 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 56 310/2 Members of the Patelloidinae are diagnosed from other lottiid species by the presence of only four microstructural layers in their shells.

1997 Jrnl. Finance 52 1592 Bossaerts and Hillion (1991) were among the first to provide a microstructural perspective on intervention in the foreign exchange market.

1937 O. B. Darbishire tr. A. von Buzágh Colloid Syst. iv. 45 The solution of this paradox is found in a ‘microstructurally correct computation’.

1979 Current Anthropol. 20 408 The contradiction is also manifested in the attempt to explain macrostructurally what is being treated microstructurally.

1993 Appl. Superconductivity 1 63 The relatively fully developed regions of grain boundaries are likely to be low in energy and better connected microstructurally.