Compound microscope Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun light microscope that has two converging lens systems: the objective and the eyepiece

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Definitions
  1. . See Microscope.
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. . See Microscope.

Webster 1913