darkfield

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being or relating to a method of microscopy that excludes the unscattered beam from the image, so that the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is generally dark.

Word forms

darkfield

Etymology

From dark + field.

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