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microtome

microtome noun: a special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.

microtome: a special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later...
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Noun

microtome (plural microtomes)

  1. A special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.
    • The first microtome was constructed for John Hill, to make the specimens described in his book on the structure of timber (1770).1998, Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner, editors, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 401

Verb

microtome (third-person singular simple present microtomes, present participle microtoming, simple past and past participle microtomed)

  1. To cut into sections using a microtome

microtome meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

microtome in Tamil

திசு நுண்வெட்டி, நுண்திசு வெட்டி

microtome in Tagalog

slicing instrument
mikgayat

Forms of microtome

Noun
pluralmicrotomes
Verb
third-person singular presentmicrotomes
present participlemicrotoming
past participlemicrotomed
pastmicrotomed

Origin of microtome

Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.

Words formed from microtome

Questions about microtome

What does microtome mean?
Microtome means a special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.
What is microtome in Tamil?
Microtome in Tamil is திசு நுண்வெட்டி, நுண்திசு வெட்டி. See Microtome meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is microtome?
Microtome can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of microtome?
The plural of microtome is microtomes.

Words near microtome in the dictionary

  1. microtitrated
  2. microtitration
  3. microtitrations
  4. microtitre
  5. microtitres
  6. microtome
  7. microtomed
  8. microtomentose
  9. microtomentum
  10. microtomes
  11. microtomic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: microtome (page history and authors); microtome (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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