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darkfield

darkfield adjective: being or relating to a method of microscopy that excludes the unscattered beam from the image, so that the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is generally dark.

Adjective

darkfield (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a method of microscopy that excludes the unscattered beam from the image, so that the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is generally dark.

Origin of darkfield

From dark + field.

Questions about darkfield

What does darkfield mean?
Darkfield means being or relating to a method of microscopy that excludes the unscattered beam from the image, so that the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is generally dark.
What part of speech is darkfield?
Darkfield is an adjective.

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