microscopy

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Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)
Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképt͏̌omai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English microscopy

    From micro- + -scopy.

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: mī-krŏsʹkə-pē
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/
    • (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA(key): /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/
      • Audio (Texas):(file)
    • (Canada, Boston, Maine) IPA(key): /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/
    • (Australia) IPA(key): /mɑeˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): [mɑe̯ˈkɹɔ̟s.kə.pi]
    • Hyphenation: mi‧cros‧co‧py

    Noun

    microscopy (countable and uncountable, plural microscopies)

    1. The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
    2. The use of microscopes.
      • 1966 February, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
        Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
      • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:
        Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
      • 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News‎[1], archived from the original on 26 August 2026:
        A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).

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