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microphotograph

microphotograph noun: a photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.

Noun

microphotograph (plural microphotographs)

  1. A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
    • Holonyms: microform; microfilm, microfiche; microdot
    • The advantages of the use of photographic reduction in recording documents are so obvious that it is not surprising that the first microphotograph was made shortly after the invention of photography [1-4].¹1962, UNESCO, UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, volume 16
  2. (proscribed, sometimes) A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area: a photomicrograph.

Verb

microphotograph (third-person singular simple present microphotographs, present participle microphotographing, simple past and past participle microphotographed)

  1. To create such a photograph

microphotograph meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

microphotograph in Tamil

நுண்ணொளிப்படம்

microphotograph in Tagalog

reduced photograph
miklarawan

Examples of microphotograph in a sentence

  • Microphotograph slides, however, required an expensive microscope for viewing, which make them beyond the reach of the average person.2007, Michael R. Peres, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications:
  • [John Benjamin] Dancer's first successful microphotograph, a daguerreotype of a 20 inches long document reduced to 3mm in length, was printed in 1839.2008, John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, volume 1, page 926, column 1:

Forms of microphotograph

Noun
pluralmicrophotographs
Verb
third-person singular presentmicrophotographs
present participlemicrophotographing
past participlemicrophotographed
pastmicrophotographed

Origin of microphotograph

From micro- + photograph.

Questions about microphotograph

What does microphotograph mean?
Microphotograph means a photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
What is microphotograph in Tamil?
Microphotograph in Tamil is நுண்ணொளிப்படம். See Microphotograph meaning in Tamil.
How do you use microphotograph in a sentence?
Microphotograph slides, however, required an expensive microscope for viewing, which make them beyond the reach of the average person.
What part of speech is microphotograph?
Microphotograph can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of microphotograph?
The plural of microphotograph is microphotographs.

Words near microphotograph in the dictionary

  1. microphotodiodes
  2. microphotodisruption
  3. microphotodisruptions
  4. microphotogram
  5. microphotograms
  6. microphotograph
  7. microphotographed
  8. microphotographer
  9. microphotographers
  10. microphotographic
  11. microphotographing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microphotograph (page history and authors); microphotograph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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