Definition of "microcosms" [microcosms]

• Plural form of microcosm. (noun)

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• "Marine ecologist Mary O'Connor of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill set up five four-liter "microcosms" of seawater filled with microorganisms from the Bogue Sound estuary on the North Carolina coast."
• "We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation.""
• "Ages before modern physics revealed that the composition of an atom, with electrons who orbit a nucleus, are microcosms of a solar system, which involves planets who orbit a sun, the Taoists understood that this microscosmic principle exists and applies to all things as early as the 6th century BCE."