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Microscope :: Microscope (n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye..

#NAME? :: -scope () A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope..

Ocular :: Ocular (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope..

Erector :: Erector (n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted..

Microscopically :: Microscopically (adv.) By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

Adjustment :: Adjustment (n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment..

Adjust :: Adjust (v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope..

Discoverable :: Discoverable (a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry..

Amplify :: Amplify (v. t.) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc..

Microspectroscope :: Microspectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance..

Filar :: Filar (a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer..

Eyeglass :: Eyeglass (n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc..

Micr- :: Micr- () Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope..

Microscopical :: Microscopical (a.) Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a microscopic insect..

Cryptocrystalline :: Cryptocrystalline (a.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct..

Microscopy :: Microscopy (n.) The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.

Binocular :: Binocular (n.) A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope..

Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..

Micropegmatite :: Micropegmatite (n.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).

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