microscope
Syllables: mi·cro·scope/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp//ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/
microscope noun: an optical instrument used for observing small objects.
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Noun
microscope (plural microscopes)
- An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 23, page 222
- Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices...1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303
- Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
Verb
microscope (third-person singular simple present microscopes, present participle microscoping, simple past and past participle microscoped)
- To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
- It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.1897, The Clinical Journal, page 200
- Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).2012, E.J. Zingg, D.M.A. Wallace, Bladder Cancer, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 79
- Synonyms:
- microscopize
microscope meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
microscope in Hindi
- an optical instrument
- ख़ुर्दबीन xurdabīn, सूक्ष्मदर्शी sūkṣmadarśī
microscope in Tamil
- an optical instrument
- நுண்நோக்கி nuṇnōkki
microscope in Marathi
- an optical instrument
- सूक्ष्मदर्शक sūkṣmadarśak
microscope in Urdu
- an optical instrument
- خردبین xurd-bīn, خرد بین xurd-bīn
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- microscope in Bengali
- অণুবীক্ষণযন্ত্র onubikkhonojontro
- microscope in Telugu
- సూక్ష్మదర్శిని sūkṣmadarśini
- microscope in Malayalam
- സൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി sūkṣmadaṟśini
- microscope in Kannada
- ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದರ್ಶಕ sūkṣmadarśaka, ಸೀರುತೋರ್ಪುಕ sīrutōrapuka, ಮೈಕ್ರೋಸ್ಕೋಪು maikrōskōpu
- microscope in Punjabi
- ਖ਼ੁਰਦਬੀਨ xurdabīn
- microscope in Sinhala
- අන්වීක්ෂය anwīkṣaya
- microscope in Tagalog
- mikroskopyo, miksipat
- microscope in Arabic
- مِجْهَر mijhar
- microscope in Malay
- mikroskop, teropong halus, teropong tuma, teropong kuman
- microscope in Indonesian
- mikroskop
- microscope in Persian
- ریزبین riz-bin, میکروسکوپ mikroskop
- microscope in Thai
- กล้องจุลทรรศน์ glong jun la taad
- microscope in Vietnamese
- kính hiển vi
- microscope in Myanmar
- မိုက္ကရိုစကုပ် muikka.ruica.kup
Examples of microscope in a sentence
- You'll need to focus the microscope carefully in order to capture the full detail of this surface.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
Synonyms of microscope
Forms of microscope
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | microscopes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | microscopes |
| present participle | microscoping |
| past participle | microscoped |
| past | microscoped |
Origin of microscope
From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope.
Words formed from microscope
- atomic force microscope
- bimicroscope
- biomicroscope
- blink microscope
- colpomicroscope
- compound microscope
- cryomicroscope
- cryo-transmission electron microscope
- dissecting microscope
- electromicroscope
- electron microscope
- endomicroscope
- epifluorescence microscope
- field emission microscope
- fluorescence microscope
- fluoromicroscope
- interference microscope
- light microscope
- microscopal
- microscope slide
- microscopial
- microscopic
- microscopical
- microscopist
- microscopy
- monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
- optical microscope
- otomicroscope
- oxyhydrogen microscope
- petrographic microscope
- phase contrast microscope
- photomicroscope
- projection microscope
- reflecting microscope
- scanning electron microscope
- scanning transmission electron microscope
- scanning tunneling microscope
- simple microscope
- solar microscope
- spectromicroscope
- stereomicroscope
- stereo microscope
- stimulated emission depletion microscope
- supermicroscope
- telemicroscope
- transmission electron microscope
- ultramicroscope
- under the microscope
- videomicroscope
- X-ray microscope
Phrases with microscope
Questions about microscope
- What does microscope mean?
- Microscope means an optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- What is microscope in Hindi?
- Microscope in Hindi is ख़ुर्दबीन (xurdabīn), सूक्ष्मदर्शी (sūkṣmadarśī). See Microscope meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is microscope?
- Microscope can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce microscope?
- Microscope is pronounced /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of microscope?
- The plural of microscope is microscopes.
Words near microscope in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: microscope (page history and authors); ਖ਼ੁਰਦਬੀਨ (Punjabi) (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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