Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A photograph requiring magnification for viewing.
- noun A photograph on microfilm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photograph of any object, made so small as to require a microscope for its examination; “a microscopic photograph of a macroscopic object” (A. C. Mercer).
- noun See
photomicrograph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
- noun An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through alens or amicroscope . - noun A photograph taken through a
microscope , an enlarged picture of a very small item or area; aphotomicrograph .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In addition, he is just plain wrong in places: a photomicrograph is not the same as a microphotograph.
Annoying and pretentious terms. Ann Althouse 2008
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A. phase contrast microphotograph of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells at passage 2.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010
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A. phase contrast microphotograph of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells at passage 2.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010
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The microphotograph below shows bacteria that can be observed in prostate cancer.
Red Ice Creations 2008
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The exceedingly small piece of collodion film containing the positive microphotograph image was mounted in balsam beneath a cover glass on a standard 3 x 1 slide. "
Museum Blogs 2010
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