microscopy

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microscopy

  • /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/ UK
  • /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/ Atlantic Canada, US
  • /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/ Canada, dialectal
  • /mɑeˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/ Australia

noun microscopies

  1. countable, uncountable The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
  2. countable, uncountable The use of microscopes. Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”

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Closest in meaning: microscope, microscopic, light, electron, scanning, sweep, scan, endomicroscopy, microanalysis, microexamination, micrography, micrometry, microphotography, micrology, microtechnique, materialography

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noun study of microscopes

Españolmicroscopia, microscopía
Françaismicroscopie
DeutschMikroskopie
Ελληνικάμικροσκοπία mikroskopía
Русскиймикроскопи́я mikroskopíja

noun use of microscopes

Españolmicroscopia, microscopía
Portuguêsmicroscopia
Françaismicroscopie
DeutschMikroskopie
Italianomicroscopia
Ελληνικάμικροσκοπία mikroskopía
Русскиймикроскопи́я mikroskopíja

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@misc{microscopy_2026,
  title = {microscopy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/microscopy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}