Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A drawing or photographic reproduction of an object as viewed through a microscope.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as micropantograph.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
  • noun a graphic image, such as a photograph or drawing, representing an object as seen with a microscope, usually much enlarged as compared with the original object. A photograph of a microscopic image is also called a photomicrograph or microphotograph.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale.
  • noun An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.

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Examples

  • Scanning electron micrograph images are taken in black and white and are coloured later.

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  • The killer: a colourised transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion.

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  • It looks like a TEM micrograph of some kind of migratory cell, but I can't be sure ...

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  • Tel: 49-3025-4860 www. berlinerfestspiele.de photography "Microphotography: Beauty Beyond the Visible" exhibits a series of works from the microcosmic universe, including purely scientific images that nonetheless offer aesthetic appeal, such as the very earliest micrograph works ever made in 1840.

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  • An electron micrograph shows the grains of pollen sticking to a bee's leg. And a close-up of a leaf's epidermis displays the tiny openings that regulate the exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen and water vapor.

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  • He showed me an electron-micrograph image of the inside of the gut.

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  • A MOLECULAR WRECKING YARD: Electron-micrograph images of the termite's third gut, where food is turned into fuel

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  • A MOLECULAR WRECKING YARD: Electron-micrograph images of the termite's third gut, where food is turned into fuel

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  • Light micrograph of Dicyemid japonicaum rhombogen.

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  • I'll stick my neck out somewhat – Looks like a micrograph of a mineral grain.

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