Microscope

n.

1.

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. Compound microscope an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece. Oxyhydrogen microscope See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar. Simple microscope a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.

Noun

1.

microscope - magnifier of the image of small objects; "the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell"

angioscope, camera lucida, electron microscope, light microscope, magnifier

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