electron microscope

noun

: an electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a minute object

electron microscopist noun

electron microscopy noun

Examples of electron microscope in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The team used a long list of cutting-edge techniques to track the microplastics, including electron microscopes, infrared technology, lasers and nanoparticle tracking analysis. —Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024

By Ivan Amato edited by Gary Stix In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one of its signature behaviors, could be an agent of viral transmission. —Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2025

This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions. —CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024

The whole show was viewed using high-vacuum transmission electron microscopes. —Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for electron microscope

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Kids Definition

electron microscope

noun

: an instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a very small object

Medical Definition

electron microscope

noun

: an electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a minute object

electron microscopist noun

electron microscopy noun