Microscope
noun
A tool used to see very small things by making them appear bigger.
The scientist used a microscope to study the cells.
Often appears as...
- under a microscope
- microscope view
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Technical
noun
A tool used to see very small things by making them appear bigger.
The scientist used a microscope to study the cells.
Often appears as...
- under a microscope
- microscope view
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Inquiry
Associated with scientific research to observe small organisms or structures.
Researchers rely on the microscope for discoveries in microbiology.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Under a microscope' means being closely scrutinized, often used metaphorically in various contexts.
After the scandal, the company's finances were put under a microscope.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Preciseness
Implies precision and detail-oriented analysis in academic or professional settings.
The quality control team examines products through a microscope to find defects.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Inquiry
Associated with scientific research to observe small organisms or structures.
Researchers rely on the microscope for discoveries in microbiology.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Under a microscope' means being closely scrutinized, often used metaphorically in various contexts.
After the scandal, the company's finances were put under a microscope.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Preciseness
Implies precision and detail-oriented analysis in academic or professional settings.
The quality control team examines products through a microscope to find defects.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Inquiry
Associated with scientific research to observe small organisms or structures.
Researchers rely on the microscope for discoveries in microbiology.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Under a microscope' means being closely scrutinized, often used metaphorically in various contexts.
After the scandal, the company's finances were put under a microscope.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Preciseness
Implies precision and detail-oriented analysis in academic or professional settings.
The quality control team examines products through a microscope to find defects.
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Computing with fluids PIPE...
seconds but also like what has been the impact of getting full scopes out in the world so full scope is a microscope it's origami microscope you put together you do microscopy but the goal is to do it anywhere we wrote a paper and then we moved on to other stuff and we realize nothing changed in the world actually you know you realize when you write a
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This deep-sea mystery is...
They all look the same under a microscope, I mean, to a first approximation. You can take the most fascinating organisms in the world, like a microbe that literally breathes uranium, and another one that makes rocket fuel, mix them up with some ocean mud, put them underneath a microscope,
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How Cheap Paper...
Information only becomes meaningful when you've had an experience. How do you really bring that experience of science to people all around the world? A big vision that we have is to bring a microscope into the pocket of every single kid in the world. It's about getting to places where
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The wacky history of...
is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item
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If I should have a...
because rain will wash away everything, if you let it. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind, because that's the way my mom taught me.
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The Colour of Dinosaurs...
you ever even imagine that you would have been able to tell what color any dinosaurs would have been no I mean I think about time I and everybody else would have said that is one of the things we'll will never know using a scanning electron microscope might can
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How do we know what...
Let's return to the microraptor fossil. When scientists examined its feather imprints under a powerful microscope, they found nanostructures that look like melanosomes. X-ray analysis of the melanosomes further supported that theory.
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Peter van Uhm: Why I...
by starting up sustainable businesses. And you all have chosen your own instruments to fulfill this mission of creating a better world. Some chose the microscope as their instrument.
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Hidden miracles of the...
of important and remote places. We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see. The electron microscope fires electrons which creates images
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you Charlie doesn't microscope these bio blitzes help us awaken the public
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Computing with fluids PIPE...
seconds but also like what has been the impact of getting full scopes out in the world so full scope is a microscope it's origami microscope you put together you do microscopy but the goal is to do it anywhere we wrote a paper and then we moved on to other stuff and we realize nothing changed in the world actually you know you realize when you write a
Video examples
This deep-sea mystery is...
They all look the same under a microscope, I mean, to a first approximation. You can take the most fascinating organisms in the world, like a microbe that literally breathes uranium, and another one that makes rocket fuel, mix them up with some ocean mud, put them underneath a microscope,
Video examples
How Cheap Paper...
Information only becomes meaningful when you've had an experience. How do you really bring that experience of science to people all around the world? A big vision that we have is to bring a microscope into the pocket of every single kid in the world. It's about getting to places where
Video examples
The wacky history of...
is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item
Video examples
If I should have a...
because rain will wash away everything, if you let it. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind, because that's the way my mom taught me.
Video examples
The Colour of Dinosaurs...
you ever even imagine that you would have been able to tell what color any dinosaurs would have been no I mean I think about time I and everybody else would have said that is one of the things we'll will never know using a scanning electron microscope might can
Video examples
How do we know what...
Let's return to the microraptor fossil. When scientists examined its feather imprints under a powerful microscope, they found nanostructures that look like melanosomes. X-ray analysis of the melanosomes further supported that theory.
Video examples
Peter van Uhm: Why I...
by starting up sustainable businesses. And you all have chosen your own instruments to fulfill this mission of creating a better world. Some chose the microscope as their instrument.
Video examples
Hidden miracles of the...
of important and remote places. We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see. The electron microscope fires electrons which creates images
Video examples
BioBlitz Finds 2,300+...
you Charlie doesn't microscope these bio blitzes help us awaken the public
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Ronan Farrow
American Journalist
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
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Susana Martinez
American Politician
As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.
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John Malkovich
American Actor
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indian Businesswoman
People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.
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Amy Lee
American Musician
Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
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Harold E. Varmus
American Scientist
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
German Theologian
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
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Ronan Farrow
American Journalist
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
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Susana Martinez
American Politician
As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.
Quote examples
John Malkovich
American Actor
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
Quote examples
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indian Businesswoman
People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.
Quote examples
Amy Lee
American Musician
Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
Quote examples
Harold E. Varmus
American Scientist
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Quote examples
Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
Quote examples
Johann Kaspar Lavater
German Theologian
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Quote examples
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
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