Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of microscopes.
- n. The use of microscopes.
- n. Investigation employing a microscope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or art of using the microscope; investigation with the microscope: as, to be skilled in microscopy.
Wiktionary
- n. the study of microscopes, their design and manufacture
- n. the use of microscopes
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
WordNet 3.0
- n. research with the use of microscopes
Examples
“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.”
“The latest contribution to the development of microscopy is what is termed the scanning tunneling microscope.”
“The great breakthrough in microscopy came when it was found possible to produce an image of an object using an electron beam.”
“While the latter pays much better, it certainly does less for the world than my previous work in biomath working on multiphoton microscopy, which is mostly used for understanding cellular activities WRT cancer.”
“As there is no natural science proper called microscopy, embracing all the observations made by means of the microscope, so care should be taken not to deduce the principle of a science from the chief instrument it employs.”
“To image kinesin at this critical stage, Downing and Sindelar turned to cryoelectron microscopy, which is a type of electron microscopy in which the sample is studied at extremely low temperatures.”
“Traditional microscopy, which is over 100 years old, is how tuberculosis is usually detected, and we simply have to have a better way of doing that.”
“Must be familiar with some analytical equipment such as microscopy (SEM, TEM) viscosity measurement, particle size analysis (light scattering) profilometry, thermal analysis of materials (DSC, TGA, DMA), and circuit characterization (digital multimeter and oscilloscopes).”
“Important characterisation techniques, such as microscopy and surface analysis are also included.”
“Loss of coherence is a problem in Raman microscopy, which is a prospective method for molecular identification and imaging.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘microscopy’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
discharge lamp, correlation matrix, obidoxime chloride, withdrawal symptom, ipratropium bromide, book lung, zirconium dioxide, octane number, acetyl group, computer accessory, pinto bean, regression equation and 480 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Size Matters!
The long and the short of it.
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benjfrank's Words
phantasmagoria, mellifluous, serendipity, hoosegow, luminosity, syzygy, microscopy, the, animate, nutmeg, alabaster, cranium and 18 more...
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