Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of microscopes.
- noun The use of microscopes.
- noun Investigation employing a microscope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or art of using the microscope; investigation with the microscope: as, to be skilled in microscopy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the study of
microscopes , theirdesign andmanufacture - noun the use of microscopes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun research with the use of microscopes
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Examples
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But thanks to rapid advances in microscopy in the last decade, researchers can now watch a single gene being transcribed from DNA -- one atom at a time -- or observe the activity of a protein molecule as it moves inside a living cell.
This is astonishing... Edward Willett 2006
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But thanks to rapid advances in microscopy in the last decade, researchers can now watch a single gene being transcribed from DNA -- one atom at a time -- or observe the activity of a protein molecule as it moves inside a living cell.
Archive 2006-09-10 Edward Willett 2006
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The great breakthrough in microscopy came when it was found possible to produce an image of an object using an electron beam.
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The latest contribution to the development of microscopy is what is termed the scanning tunneling microscope.
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While the latter pays much better, it certainly does less for the world than my previous work in biomath working on multiphoton microscopy, which is mostly used for understanding cellular activities WRT cancer.
Being Poor is Hoping the Toothache Goes Away. « Whatever 2007
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As there is no natural science proper called microscopy, embracing all the observations made by means of the microscope, so care should be taken not to deduce the principle of a science from the chief instrument it employs.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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To image kinesin at this critical stage, Downing and Sindelar turned to cryoelectron microscopy, which is a type of electron microscopy in which the sample is studied at extremely low temperatures.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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To image kinesin at this critical stage, Downing and Sindelar turned to cryoelectron microscopy, which is a type of electron microscopy in which the sample is studied at extremely low temperatures.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Traditional microscopy, which is over 100 years old, is how tuberculosis is usually detected, and we simply have to have a better way of doing that.
Medindia Health News 2010
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To image kinesin at this critical stage, Downing and Sindelar turned to cryoelectron microscopy, which is a type of electron microscopy in which the sample is studied at extremely low temperatures.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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