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microphotograph

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 a lens or a microscope.
  • noun A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area; a photomicrograph.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

micro- +‎ photograph

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Examples

  • 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

  • A. phase contrast microphotograph of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells at passage 2.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • A. phase contrast microphotograph of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells at passage 2.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • The microphotograph below shows bacteria that can be observed in prostate cancer.

    Red Ice Creations 2008

  • 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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