Microscope
['maɪkrəskəʊp] or ['maɪkrəskop]
Definition
(noun.) magnifier of the image of small objects; 'the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell'.
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Definition
(n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
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Definition
n. an instrument which magnifies to the eye objects so minute as to be almost or quite undiscernible without its aid.—adjs. Microscop′ic -al pertaining to a microscope: made by or as if by a microscope: visible only by the aid of a microscope: working with or as if with a microscope.—adv. Microscop′ically.—ns. Mī′croscopist one skilled in the use of the microscope; Mī′croscopy.—Binocular microscope a microscope with two eye-pieces for viewing an object with both eyes at once; Compound microscope a microscope with two sets of lenses so arranged that the image formed by the lower or object glass is again magnified by the upper or eye-piece.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a microscope, denotes you will experience failure or small returns in your enterprises.
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Examples
- Edison was intolerant of sham and shoddy, and nothing would satisfy him that could not stand cross-examination by microscope, test-tube, and galvanometer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The double or compound microscope was invented by Farncelli in 1624, and it was in that century that the first important applications were made for scientific investigation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With the simple microscope Leeuwenhoek before 1673 had studied the structure of minute animal organisms and ten years later had even obtained sight of bacteria. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Presently the Dutchman, Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) brought the first crude microscope to bear upon the hidden minuti? of life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, at some stages, said Lydgate, lifting his brows and smiling, while he began to arrange his microscope. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To the microscope the art of photography has lent its valuable aid, so that all the revelations of the microscope are susceptible of preservation in permanent records, as photomicrographs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Achromatic and other lenses were known, and the microscope, the telescope and spectacles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At this time he was investigating everything with a microscope, and one day in the early part of 1880 he noticed upon a table in the laboratory an ordinary palm-leaf fan. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The history of the microscope is closely connected with that of the telescope. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Close at hand is a microscope which is in frequent use by him in these investigations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He sent copies to some friends, and shortly his microscopes were as much in demand as his telescopes had been. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The invention of John Dolland of London, about 1758, of the achromatic lens should be borne in mind in connection with telescopes, microscopes, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Very early in the same century Zacharias had presented Prince Maurice, the commander of the Dutch forces , and the Archduke Albert, governor of Holland, with compound microscopes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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