# microscope
## English
### Etymology

From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”), equivalent to micro- +‎ -scope.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mīʹkrə-skōp'
* (UK) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/
** Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):(file)
* Hyphenation: mi‧cro‧scope

### Noun

microscope (plural microscopes)
* An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
** 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 23, page 222:That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
** 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
* Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).

#### Derived terms

* atomic force microscope
* bimicroscope
* biomicroscope
* colpomicroscope
* compound microscope
* cryomicroscope
* cryo-transmission electron microscope
* dissecting microscope
* electromicroscope
* electron microscope
* endomicroscope
* epifluorescence microscope
* field emission microscope
* fluorescence microscope
* fluoromicroscope
* interference microscope
* light microscope
* microscopal
* microscope slide
* microscopial
* microscopic
* microscopical
* microscopist
* microscopy
* monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
* optical microscope
* otomicroscope
* petrographic microscope
* phase contrast microscope
* photomicroscope
* reflecting microscope
* scanning electron microscope
* scanning transmission electron microscope
* scanning tunneling microscope
* simple microscope
* solar microscope
* spectromicroscope
* stereo microscope
* stereomicroscope
* stimulated emission depletion microscope
* supermicroscope
* telemicroscope
* transmission electron microscope
* ultramicroscope
* under the microscope
* videomicroscope
* X-ray microscope

#### See also

* magnifying glass
* telescope

### Verb

microscope (third-person singular simple present microscopes, present participle microscoping, simple past and past participle microscoped)
* To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
    Synonym: microscopize
** 1897, The Clinical Journal, page 200:It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.
** 2012, E.J. Zingg, D.M.A. Wallace, Bladder Cancer, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 79:Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

From micro- +‎ -scope.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.kʁɔs.kɔp/
* Audio (Lyon):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Noun

microscope m (plural microscopes)
* microscope

#### Derived terms

* microscopie
* microscopique

### Further reading

* “microscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.