microscope
(maɪkrəskoʊp )
Word forms: microscopes
1. countable noun
A microscope is a scientific instrument which makes very small objects look bigger so that more detail can be seen.
2. under the microscope phrase
If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
The media put their every decision under the microscope.
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Collocations:
microscope reveals microscope slide optical microscope powerful microscope
Observing with a light microscope reveals additional details: spores are ellipsoid, smooth, and measure 68 by 3.55 m.
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Examination with a microscope reveals further details: they are roughly spherical, hyaline (translucent) and thin-walled, with dimensions of 7.88.8 m.
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An electron microscope reveals even more, allowing for the identification of substructures such as globules, crystals, membranes, fibrils and tubules.
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While the glass wall between actors and audience would, you might think, be distancing, in fact it draws you in like a glowing microscope slide.
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However, this leads to the problem of finding small numbers of aberrant cells on a microscope slide among perhaps millions of normal ones.
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Next, he deposits the cell onto a microscope slide, where it dries.
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Mounting usually involves attaching the samples to a glass microscope slide for observation and analysis.
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Smaller objects such as seeds can be placed on a microscope slide and secured using small adhesive labels.
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The submicroscopic scale similarly includes objects that are too small to see even with any optical microscope.
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During this stage of the cell cycle this makes the individual chromosomes in many cells visible by optical microscope.
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These conical pits are usually of micrometer dimensions and can be observed with an optical microscope.
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Two kinds of optical microscope are generally used to examine flat, polished and etched specimens: a reflection microscope and an inverted microscope.
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The image from an optical microscope can be captured by normal light-sensitive cameras to generate a micrograph.
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One professor has just taken delivery of the most powerful microscope in the world that can create images of individual atoms.
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The virus was so small that it was 20 years before a sufficiently powerful microscope was developed to see it.
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It's the most powerful microscope ever built and at the same time the most powerful telescope ever built.
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You can tell a good one from a bad one only if you have 30 years of training and a very powerful microscope.
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The microcannons, which can be seen only with powerful microscopes, work in much the same way as the macro kind of cannon.
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Translations:
Chinese: 显微镜
Japanese: 顕微鏡
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- hotel porter
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- hotel restaurant
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- hotel suite
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- hot favourite
- hot flame
- hot flash
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- hot-foot
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- hot-foot