micro-location
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.01 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A location of something within a larger area or region, such as a part of a city or a section of a river.
Countable
noun
A location specified on a microscopic scale, such as on a biochip or on a DNA molecule.
Countable
noun
The process of electronically determining the location of something with a level of precision that locates it within a building or room.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The macro-location of industry and population tends towards an ever-increasing concentration in a limited number of area; their micro-location, on the other hand, towards an ever-increasing diffusion or "sprawl". In this case it is convenient to describe under the heading of macro-location the analysis of the location of population and industry as between regions and groupings of industrial towns; and the term micro-location to describe in more detail how they are located within such areas."
- "This kind of longitudinal sampling location is referred to as micro-location. Micro-location should take place in a reach of river in which the water is completely mixed — that is, where the concentration of water quality variables is independent of lateral location and depth in a cross-section."
- "Mandt's micro-location is the type of terrain (shoreline, flat, hilly), and the macro- location is the geographical distribution (coastal zone, farm zone, mountain zone). The micro and macro variables are highly correlated by definition."
- "The quality of the micro-location of a project is considered as a very important factor in the development of a hotel."
- "The ability to produce well defined electric fields with these electrode arrays enables one to electrophoretically transport those charged particles to or from any micro location on the surface of the device submerged in the analyte solution."
- "The cells introduced onto these microelectrodes are manipulated to different micro-locations by positive and negative DEP forces."