Definition of Micrascope
Mi"cro*scope (?), n. [Micro- +
-scope.] An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or
combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object
which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Compound microscope, an instrument
consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by
the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the
objective) is magnified by another lens called the
ocular or eyepiece. -- Oxyhydrogen
microscope, and Solar microscope. See
under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar. -- Simple,
or Single, microscope, a single
convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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