microscopy
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Definition of microscopy
: the use of or investigation with a microscope
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Examples of microscopy in a Sentence
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But Malone-Lee acknowledges that, as with the DNA and broth methods, microscopy is not a perfect solution. — Suzannah Weiss, chicagotribune.com, "For those suffering from chronic urinary tract pain, new tests bring hope," 5 July 2019 If so, researchers may be able to dig the rock up, peel away layers of time, and explore the long-ago event using sophisticated nano-imaging techniques like atomic force microscopy. — Rebecca Boyle, WIRED, "Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues," 13 Jan. 2019 Cryo-electron microscopy, usually called cryo-EM for short, is the brainchild of their contributions and those of their colleagues. — Quanta Magazine, "Supercool Protein Imaging Gets the Nobel Prize," 4 Oct. 2017 To find out, the authors set the state of the device, removed the MoTe2 layer, and then subjected it to electron microscopy. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Researchers make RAM from a phase change we don’t entirely understand," 18 Dec. 2018 Alternative approaches, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and cryoelectron microscopy, also require large amounts of a protein and can take months. — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, "Mutant genes could supercharge efforts to decipher protein structures," 18 June 2019 Using a type of fluorescent microscopy, researchers from Pennsylvania State University watched fungal colonization in ants from the gaster, the rear end of the abdomen, to the head—and found no trace of fungal cells in the brain. — Jennifer Lu, National Geographic, "How a parasitic fungus turns ants into 'zombies'," 18 Apr. 2019 In addition to microscopy and X-ray analyses, Gillreath-Brown reconstructed exact replicas of the tool and used them to tattoo pig skin. — Krista Langlois, National Geographic, "2,000-year-old tattoo needle identified by archaeologists," 28 Feb. 2019 While most of you may know Nikon as a camera company, microscopy is a sibling of photography in many ways beyond the involvement of high-end lenses. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Some of this year’s best microscopy images," 17 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'microscopy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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microscopy
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plural microscopies
Medical Definition of microscopy
: the use of or investigation with the microscope
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