microscope
an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
Microscope, Astronomy. the constellation Microscopium.
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How to use microscope in a sentence
He brought the microscope home from the lab as lockdown was about to begin last March, along with plenty of dust.
What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves | Natalie Wolchover | February 4, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe researchers were able to observe the ripple pattern using a special type of microscope.
Physicists have clocked the shortest time span ever | Maria Temming | January 29, 2021 | Science News For StudentsDoctors examine embryos through a microscope to determine how many cells they contain and whether they appear healthy, and choose the one that looks most viable.
How an Israeli Startup Is Using AI to Help People Make Babies | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | January 27, 2021 | Singularity HubShe got a job as a lab technician in a hospital, where she analyzed tissue samples with a microscope.
June Almeida had an unlikely path to discovering coronavirus | Suzanne Slade | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostOther libraries that Google has under the microscope are Lodash and possibly Underscore.
Google’s Lighthouse is now recommending JavaScript library alternates | Detlef Johnson | January 5, 2021 | Search Engine Land
Were you being extra picky in the wake of Twilight because you knew you were under the microscope?
There was the aforementioned man in a lab coat sitting at a microscope.
In the 1970s, no microscope was needed to see neck and spine injuries among players of all levels were escalating fast.
Super Bowl XLVIII Is Set to Be the Most Violent One Yet | Evin Demirel | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the ensuing fallout Eastside Catholic High School has found itself under an intense media microscope.
Why Pushing a Catholic School to Keep a Married Gay Man Is Bad for the LGBT Movement | Keli Goff | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith these microbial systems in the Pilbara, you can see these things in the field and under the microscope.
‘Oldest Signs of Life on Earth’ Found in Australia | The Telegraph | November 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCrystals of urea nitrate or oxalate (Fig. 19) will soon appear and can be recognized with the microscope.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn both conditions chemic tests will show hemoglobin, but in the latter the microscope will reveal the presence of red corpuscles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe microscope commonly shows sarcin, bacteria, and great numbers of yeast-cells.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThis is placed upon the stage of the microscope, and one of the projecting ends is heated with a small flame.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.
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British Dictionary definitions for microscope
/ (ˈmaɪkrəˌskəʊp) /
an optical instrument that uses a lens or combination of lenses to produce a magnified image of a small, close object. Modern optical microscopes have magnifications of about 1500 to 2000: See also simple microscope, compound microscope, ultramicroscope
any instrument, such as the electron microscope, for producing a magnified visual image of a small object
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Scientific definitions for microscope
[ mī′krə-skōp′ ]
Any of various instruments used to magnify small objects that are difficult or impossible to observe the naked eye.♦ Optical microscopes use light reflected from or passed through the sample being observed to form a magnified image of the object, refracting the light with an arrangement of lenses and mirrors similar to those found in telescopes. See also atomic force microscope electron microscope field ion microscope.
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Cultural definitions for microscope
A device that produces a magnified image of objects too small to be seen with the naked eye. Such objects are thus called “microscopic.” The microscope is widely used in medicine and biology. Common microscopes use lenses; others, such as electron microscopes, scan an object with electrons, x-rays, and other radiation besides ordinary visible light.
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