Definitions for microscope

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microscope mi·cro·scope

Spelling: [mahy-kruh-skohp]

IPA: /ˈmaɪ krəˌskoʊp/

Microscope is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 547 anagrams from letters in microscope (cceimooprs).

Definitions for microscope

noun

1. an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Microscopium.

Origin of microscope

From the New Latin word mīcroscopium, dating back to 1650-60. See micro-, -scope

Examples for microscope

That dust, on being transferred to the stage of a microscope, was found to contain an enormous number of starch grains.

There was the aforementioned man in a lab coat sitting at a microscope.

Spores suboblong, smooth, 5–93–5, purple-brown under the microscope.

The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.

You can substitute fairies and goblins, with the stars, the galaxies, and looking down a microscope.

In the 1970s, no microscope was needed to see neck and spine injuries among players of all levels were escalating fast.

Were you being extra picky in the wake of Twilight because you knew you were under the microscope?

With these microbial systems in the Pilbara, you can see these things in the field and under the microscope.

These organs may be invisible in the field of the microscope, but that is no proof that they do not exist.

We view the individuals so selected through a microscope of modern focus.