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Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)
English microscope
From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope.
Pronunciation
Noun
microscope (plural microscopes)
- An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 23, page 222:
- 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.
- 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
- 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, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
- Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
Derived terms
- atomic force microscope
- bimicroscope
- biomicroscope
- 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
- petrographic microscope
- phase contrast microscope
- photomicroscope
- reflecting microscope
- scanning electron microscope
- scanning transmission electron microscope
- scanning tunneling microscope
- simple microscope
- solar microscope
- spectromicroscope
- stereo microscope
- stereomicroscope
- stimulated emission depletion microscope
- supermicroscope
- telemicroscope
- transmission electron microscope
- ultramicroscope
- under the microscope
- videomicroscope
- X-ray microscope
Translations
an optical instrument
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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).
- Synonym: microscopize
- 1897, The Clinical Journal, page 200:
- 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.
- 2012, E.J. Zingg, D.M.A. Wallace, Bladder Cancer, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 79:
- 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).
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
microscope m (plural microscopes)
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Further reading
- “microscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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