Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
microsociological
microsociology
microsome
microspectrophotometry
microsporangium
microspore
microsporocyte
microsporophyll
microstructure
microsurgery
microswitch
microteaching
microtear
microtome
microtomy
microtone
microtrabecular lattice
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

microscope

mi·cro·scope [ mkrə skp ] (plural mi·cro·scopes)


noun 
Definition:
 
magnifying instrument: a device that uses a lens or system of lenses to produce a greatly magnified image of an object. An optical microscope uses transmitted or reflected light to obtain the image. An electron microscope uses a beam of electrons and a system of electron-focusing lenses to obtain images.

Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft