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microscopy

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Etymology

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From micro- +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: mī-krŏsʹkə-pē
  • (UK) IPA(key): /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/
    • Audio (Texas):(file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /mɑɪˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧cros‧co‧py

Noun

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microscopy (countable and uncountable, plural microscopies)

  1. The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
  2. The use of microscopes.
    • 1966 February, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
      Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
    • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:
      Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
    • 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News‎[1]:
      A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).

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