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Microscopy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The study of microscopes.

n. The use of microscopes.

n. Investigation employing a microscope.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the study of microscopes, their design and manufacture

n. the use of microscopes

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act or art of using the microscope; investigation with the microscope: as, to be skilled in microscopy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. research with the use of microscopes

Word Usage

"But thanks to rapid advances in microscopy in the last decade, researchers can now watch a single gene being transcribed from DNA -- one atom at a time -- or observe the activity of a protein molecule as it moves inside a living cell."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

research

Hyponym

dark ground illumination fluorescence microscopy electron microscopy dark field illumination

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

spectroscopy diffraction microscope tomography imaging