microscopy

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English

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Etymology

From micro- +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

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