compound microscope

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noun

an optical instrument for forming magnified images of small objects, consisting of an objective lens with a very short focal length and an eyepiece with a longer focal length, both lenses mounted in the same tube.

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Origin of compound microscope

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby compound microscope

compound interval, compound joint, compound leaf, compound lens, compound magnet, compound microscope, compound myopic astigmatism, compound number, compound odontoma, compound ovary, compound pendulum

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How to use compound microscope in a sentence

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
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The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.
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Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
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Crystals of urea nitrate or oxalate (Fig. 19) will soon appear and can be recognized with the microscope.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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In both conditions chemic tests will show hemoglobin, but in the latter the microscope will reveal the presence of red corpuscles.
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British Dictionary definitions for compound microscope

compound microscope

noun

an instrument for magnifying small objects, consisting of a lens of short focal length for forming an image that is further magnified by a second lens of longer focal lengthCompare simple microscope

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Medical definitions for compound microscope

compound microscope

A microscope consisting of an objective and an eyepiece at opposite ends of an adjustable tube.