The data are stored as microscopic magnetic spots on tapes, disks and drums.

The group reports that it has built a new type of junction between a microscopic spot on a silicon chip and a corresponding spot on a leech neuron.

The stunning speed and accuracy of a modern computer comes from encoding data with precise blips of electricity in a circuit or microscopic magnetic spots on a disk.

Data are stored on the platter as microscopic spots, about 20,000 of them per linear inch, that either have, or do not have, a magnetic charge.

Microarrays were constructed by printing microscopic spots of either antibodies (to detect antigens) or antigens (to detect antibodies) onto a modified glass surface.

Ultrasonic beams, directed into ordinary liquids, can create microscopic hot spots that glow with a heat nearly as intense as that of the surface of the sun.

The white face, marked with only three almost microscopic spots of wasted blood, turned in Jerry's direction.

A full forensic review of all the evidence unearthed a microscopic spot of Lawrence's blood in the collar of the jacket seized from Dobson's house.

WHAT YOU SEE Suppose you are looking for that microscopic spot called home or a spare bit of sidewalk to plant a tree.

It consists of an arrayed series of microscopic spots ('features' or 'locations') containing few picomoles of oligonucleotides carrying a specific DNA sequence.