microscope

An optical instrument that uses a lens or a combination of lenses to produce magnified images of small objects, especially of objects too small to be seen by the unaided eye.

An instrument, such as an electron microscope, that uses electronic or other processes to magnify objects.

To enlarge with or as with a microscope; examine very minutely as with a microscope: as, to microscope one’s faults.

An optical instrument consisting of a lens or combination of lenses (in some cases mirrors also) which magnifies and thus renders visible minute objects that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or enlarges the apparent magnitude of small visible bodies, so as to render possible the examination of their texture or structure.

[capitalized] A constellation. See Microscopium.

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.

an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece.

See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar.

a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.