microscope : Idioms & Phrases

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Achromatic telescope, or microscope

  • one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives images free from extraneous color.
Webster 1913

Axis of a telescope or microscope

  • the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it.
Webster 1913

binocular microscope

  • noun a light microscope adapted to the use of both eyes
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Compound microscope

  • noun light microscope that has two converging lens systems: the objective and the eyepiece
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  • 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.
  • . See Microscope.
Webster 1913

dark-field microscope

  • noun light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes
    ultramicroscope.
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electron microscope

  • noun a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light
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field-emission microscope

  • noun electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
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light microscope

  • noun microscope consisting of an optical instrument that magnifies the image of an object
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Lucernal microscope

  • a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.
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Micrometer microscope

  • a compound microscope combined with a filar micrometer, used chiefly for reading and subdividing the divisions of large astronomical and geodetical instruments.
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microscope slide

  • noun a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
    slide.
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microscope stage

  • noun a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
    stage.
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operating microscope

  • noun binocular microscope used in surgery to provide a clear view of small and inaccessible parts of the body (as in microsurgery)
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Oxyhydrogen microscope

  • a form of microscope arranged so as to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone under a current of oxyhydrogen gas.
Webster 1913

Oxyhydrogen microscope, and Solar microscope

  • . See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar.
Webster 1913

simple microscope

  • noun light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image
    hand glass; magnifying glass.
    • the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250
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Simple, ∨ Single, microscope

  • a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.
Webster 1913

Solar microscope

  • a microscope consisting essentially, first, of a mirror for reflecting a beam of sunlight through the tube, which sometimes is fixed in a window shutter; secondly, of a condenser, or large lens, for converging the beam upon the object; and, thirdly, of a small lens, or magnifier, for throwing an enlarged image of the object at its focus upon a screen in a dark room or in a darkened box.
Webster 1913