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English
A compound microscope
Etymology
From New Latin microscopium , from Ancient Greek μικρός ( mikrós , “ small ” ) + σκοπέω ( skopéō , “ I look at ” ) .
Pronunciation
enPR : mīʹkrə-skōp'
( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/
( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Hyphenation: mi‧cro‧scope
Noun
microscope (plural microscopes )
An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
1837 , The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , volume 23 , page 222 :That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope ).
Derived terms
Translations
an optical instrument
Abkhaz: амикроскоп ( amikʼroskʼopʼ )
Afrikaans: mikroskoop (af)
Albanian: mikroskop (sq) m
Arabic: مِجْهَر m ( mijhar )
Armenian: մանրադիտակ (hy) ( manraditak )
Aromanian: microscopu
Asturian: microscopiu m
Avar: микроско́п ( mikroskóp )
Azerbaijani: mikroskop (az) , xürdəbin
Bashkir: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Basque: mikroskopio (eu)
Belarusian: мікраско́п m ( mikraskóp )
Bengali: অণুবীক্ষণযন্ত্র ( onubikkhonojontro )
Bihari: खुर्दबीन , सूक्ष्मदर्शी
Breton: mikroskop m
Bulgarian: микроско́п m ( mikroskóp )
Burmese: မိုက္ကရိုစကုပ် ( muikka.ruica.kup )
Carpathian Rusyn: микроско́п m ( mykroskóp )
Catalan: microscopi (ca) m
Chechen: микроско́п ( mikroskóp )
Cherokee: ᎾᎥᏂᎨ ᎠᎪᎵᎡᏙᏗ ( navnige agoliedodi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 顯微鏡 / 显微镜 ( hin2 mei4 geng3 )
Eastern Min: 顯微鏡 / 显微镜 ( hiēng-mì-giáng )
Hakka: 顯微鏡 / 显微镜 ( hién-mì-kiang )
Hokkien: 顯微鏡 / 显微镜 (zh-min-nan) ( hián-bî-kiàⁿ )
Mandarin: 顯微鏡 / 显微镜 (zh) ( xiǎnwēijìng )
Chuvash: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Crimean Tatar: mikroskop , hurdebin
Czech: mikroskop (cs) m
Danish: mikroskop (da) n
Dargwa: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Dutch: microscoop (nl) m
Eastern Mari: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Erzya: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Esperanto: mikroskopo
Estonian: mikroskoop
Finnish: mikroskooppi (fi)
French: microscope (fr) m
Friulian: microscop m
Galician: microscopio (gl) m
Georgian: მიკროსკოპი ( miḳrosḳoṗi )
German: Mikroskop (de) n
Greek: μικροσκόπιο (el) n ( mikroskópio )
Haitian Creole: fotomikwoskòp konpoze
Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹסְקוֹפִּ (he) m ( mikroscop )
Hindi: ख़ुर्दबीन f ( xurdabīn ) , सूक्ष्मदर्शी (hi) m ( sūkṣmadarśī )
Hungarian: mikroszkóp (hu)
Icelandic: smásjá (is) f
Ido: mikroskopo (io)
Indonesian: mikroskop (id)
Irish: micreascóp m
Italian: microscopio (it) m
Jamaican Creole: maikroskuop
Japanese: 顕微鏡 (ja) ( けんびきょう, kenbikyō ) , マイクロスコープ ( maikurosukōpu )
Javanese: mikroskop
Kannada: ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದರ್ಶಕ (kn) ( sūkṣmadarśaka ) , ಸೀರುತೋರ್ಪುಕ (kn) ( sīrutōrapuka ) , ಮೈಕ್ರೋಸ್ಕೋಪು (kn) ( maikrōskōpu )
Kashubian: mikroskòp m
Kazakh: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Khmer: អតិសុខុមទស្សន៍ ( ʼaʼtesokhomĕəʼtŭəh ) , មីក្រូទស្សន៍ ( miikrootʊəh )
Korean: 현미경(顯微鏡) (ko) ( hyeonmigyeong )
Kumyk: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: وردبین ( wirdbîn )
Northern Kurdish: mîkroskop (ku) , hûrbîn (ku)
Kyrgyz: микроскоп (ky) ( mikroskop )
Latin: mīcroscopium n
Latvian: mikroskops m
Lezgi: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Limburgish: microscoap
Lithuanian: mikroskopas m
Macedonian: ми́кроскоп m ( míkroskop )
Malay: mikroskop (ms) , teropong halus , teropong tuma , teropong kuman , teropong hama
Malayalam: സൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി (ml) ( sūkṣmadaṟśini )
Manx: mynreayrtane
Maori: karaihe whakanui , karuwhakarahi
Marathi: सूक्ष्मदर्शक ( sūkṣmadarśak )
Mongolian: микроскоп (mn) ( mikroskop )
Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii bee nílʼíní
Neapolitan: micruscopio m
Northern Sotho: maekrosekôpo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mikroskop n
Nynorsk: mikroskop n
Occitan: microscòpi (oc) m
Ossetian: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Ottoman Turkish: hurdebîn
Persian: ریزبین (fa) ( riz-bin ) , میکروسکوپ (fa) ( mikroskop )
Piedmontese: microscòpi m
Polish: mikroskop (pl) m
Portuguese: microscópio (pt) m
Romanian: microscop (ro) n
Russian: микроско́п (ru) m ( mikroskóp )
Saterland Frisian: Mikroskop n
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ми̏кроскоп m
Roman: mȉkroskop (sh) m , sitnòzor (sh) m ( Croatia )
Shona: dongoradatu
Sinhalese: අන්වීක්ෂය ( anwīkṣaya )
Slovak: mikroskop m
Slovene: mikroskop (sl) m
Somali: sheybaar
Spanish: microscopio (es) m
Sundanese: mikroskop
Swahili: hadubini (sw) , darubini ya vidudu
Swedish: mikroskop (sv) n
Tagalog: mikroskopyo , miksipat
Tajik: резбин ( rezbin )
Tamil: நுண்நோக்கி ( nuṇnōkki )
Tatar: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Telugu: సూక్ష్మదర్శిని (te) ( sūkṣmadarśini )
Thai: กล้องจุลทรรศน์ (th) ( glong jun la taad )
Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ ( che shel )
Turkish: mikroskop (tr)
Ukrainian: мікроско́п m ( mikroskóp )
Urdu: خردبین ( xurd-bīn ) , خرد بین ( xurd-bīn )
Uyghur: مىكروسكوپ ( mikroskop )
Uzbek: mikroskop (uz)
Vietnamese: kính hiển vi (vi) (鏡顯微 )
Volapük: daluskop (vo)
Võro: mikroskuup , fähküsilm
Waray-Waray: mikroskopyo
Welsh: mwyadur m , microsgop m
West Frisian: mikroskoop n
Western Panjabi: مائکروسکوپ
Yakut: микроскоп ( mikroskop )
Yiddish: מיקראָסקאָפּ m ( mikroskop )
Zazaki: mikroskop
See also
Verb
microscope (third-person singular simple present microscopes , present participle microscoping , simple past and past participle microscoped )
To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
Synonym: microscopize
1897 , The Clinical Journal , page 200 :It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.
2012 , E.J. Zingg, D.M.A. Wallace, Bladder Cancer , Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN , page 79 :Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).
Translations
French
Etymology
From micro- + -scope .
Pronunciation
Noun
microscope m (plural microscopes )
microscope
Derived terms
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