confocal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of confocal
Example Sentences
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It is blocking out the light so she can work at a highly-sensitive confocal microscope that uses lasers to illuminate brain samples.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Counting the cells involved a process called confocal imaging microscopy.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Point-scanning confocal microscopes produce sharp images of subcellular structures by scanning a tightly focused laser beam across a sample, exciting fluorescence in the sample pixel by pixel.
From Nature ● Nov. 25, 2019
Back at Harvard as a junior fellow in the mid-1950s, Dr. Minsky invented the confocal scanning microscope that would eventually find many uses in science.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2016
The potential of such a shell at any internal point is constant, and the equipotential surfaces for external space are ellipsoids confocal with the ellipsoidal shell.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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