English Explanatory Dictionary

micrograph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope.
  2. A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
verb
  1. To produce such an image by micrography.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

micrograph micrographs micrographing micrographed

Etymology

From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.

Derived words

cryomicrograph cryo-transmission electron micrograph electron micrograph histomicrograph immunomicrograph optical micrograph photomicrograph pictomicrograph scanning electron micrograph stereomicrograph ultramicrograph videomicrograph
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