microscopy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- mī-krŏsʹkə-pē
- /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /mɑeˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/ (Australia)
- (Texas) audio
- /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
- /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
Etymology
Etymology tree English micro- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképt͏̌omai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scopy English microscopy From micro- + -scopy.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
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(countable, uncountable) The use of microscopes.
A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News:Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
1966 February 14, 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| microscopies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
telemicroscopy · ultramicroscopy · nanomicroscopy · immunomicroscopy · endomicroscopy · cryomicroscopy · spectromicroscopy · supermicroscopy · photomicroscopy · copromicroscopy · intravital microscopy · submicroscopy · biomicroscopy · fluoromicroscopy · heliomicroscopy · colpomicroscopy · videomicroscopy · otomicroscopy
Translations (26)
de Mikroskopie (use of microscopes) · uk мікроскопі́я (study of microscopes) · fr microscopie (use of microscopes) · cs drobnohledectví (use of microscopes) · ga micreascópacht (study of microscopes) · ru микроскопи́я (study of microscopes) · fr microscopie (study of microscopes) · cs mikroskopie (use of microscopes) · it microscopia (use of microscopes) · nn mikroskopi (use of microscopes) · es microscopía (study of microscopes) · pl mikroskopia (study of microscopes) · uk мікроскопі́я (use of microscopes) · sv mikroskopi (use of microscopes) · de Mikroskopie (study of microscopes) · ga micreascópacht (use of microscopes) · ca microscòpia (study of microscopes) · pt microscopia (use of microscopes) · es microscopía (use of microscopes) · ca microscòpia (use of microscopes) · el μικροσκοπία (study of microscopes) · nb mikroskopi (use of microscopes) · es microscopia (study of microscopes) · es microscopia (use of microscopes) · el μικροσκοπία (use of microscopes) · ru микроскопи́я (use of microscopes)