mi|cro|scope

mi|cro|scope
mi|cro|scope «MY kruh skohp», noun.
an instrument with a lens or a combination of lenses for making small things look larger. Bacteria, blood cells, and other objects not visible to the naked eye are clearly visible through a microscope. The simple microscope is merely a convex lens placed in a frame; the compound microscope consists essentially of two lenses, or systems of lenses, one of which, the objective or object glass, forms an enlarged inverted image of the object, and the other, the eyepiece or ocular, magnifies this image. »

The microscope showed us the existence of small living organisms whose existence had not been suspected (Atlantic).

╂[< New Latin microscopium < Greek mīkrós small + skopeîn look at]

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