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ultramicroscope

[ uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skohp ]

noun

  1. an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.


ultramicroscope

/ ˌʌٰəˈɪəˌəʊ /

noun

  1. a microscope used for studying colloids, in which the sample is strongly illuminated from the side and colloidal particles are seen as bright points on a dark background Also calleddark-field microscope
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ultramicroscope1

First recorded in 1905–10; ultra- + microscope
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Example Sentences

The problem, Mr. Moskowitz says, is one that many companies would envy: “It’s so big that its success has put them under an ultramicroscope.”

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Visibility under the "Ultramicroscope."—The particles of a sol, in contrast with the molecules of a true solution, are visible as bright scintillating points under the ultramicroscope.

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It is probably too small to be seen by any of our present microscopes, even the recently invented ultramicroscope.

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Our best ultramicroscopes could make a germ look forty thousand times larger.

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What I saw through that ultramicroscope was not an unproven theory, but a fact.

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